<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I had the same problem.<br>I tried it under Fedora 8 and it worked.<br>I have tried Fedora 10 Beta and can't get the CD to roll and I changed to try to roll a Live CentOS or Redhat CD.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Taylor, Monroe E" <monroe.e.taylor@intel.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com" <fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 17, 2008 3:50:01 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE:
[Fedora-livecd-list] Adding users to LiveCD<br></font><br><br>I used the luseradd command instead of the useradd command as follows;<br><br># add fedora user with no passwd<br>useradd -c "Fedora Live" fedora<br>passwd -d fedora > /dev/null<br><br>luseradd -c "ipdt" ipdt<br>#usermod -p 'ipdt' ipdt<br><br>luseradd -c "Monroe Taylor" metaylor<br>#usermod -p 'rocket23' metaylor<br><br>After burning and booting the CD I confirmed that accounts for each of the 3 users (Fedora Live, ipdt, and Monroe Taylor) were present on the login screen. However, none of them worked, not even the default (Fedora Live). <br><br>For the two accounts I wanted to add, the error message was unable to authenticate user I even selected other and tried to use root but got the same result. When I tried the default, the screen changed as if it was logging in, but it returned to the login screen without any error reporting.<br><br>Are there any other ideas? It seems to me that at
least the default should work.<br><br>Sorry for the late reply<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com" href="mailto:fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com" href="mailto:fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating<br>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:50 PM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com">fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com</a><br>Subject: RE: [Fedora-livecd-list] Adding users to LiveCD<br><br>On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 14:49 -0700, Taylor, Monroe E wrote:<br>> <br>> # add fedora user with no passwd<br>> useradd -c "Fedora Live" fedora<br>> passwd -d fedora > /dev/null<br>> <br>> useradd -c "ipdg" ipdt<br>> useradd -c "monroe taylor"
metaylor<br><br>IIRC useradd doesn't use libuser, and cannot set selinux attributes<br>correctly. Try luseradd instead?<br><br>-- <br>Jesse Keating<br>Fedora -- Freedomē is a feature!<br>identi.ca: <a href="http://identi.ca/jkeating" target="_blank">http://identi.ca/jkeating</a><br><br>--<br>Fedora-livecd-list mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com">Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list</a><br></div></div></div></body></html>