populating home directory during creating of live image

[Vojtěch Polášek]

Hello,

is it possible to populate the "Liveuser" home directory during creation 
of live image with livecd-creator?

I know that you can do it with livecd-iso-to-disk, but I would like to 
do it in the kickstart. When I try to put something in /home/liveuser, 
it still does not exist during creation process.

Where can I find this directory which will become the home?

Or is it enough to put those things into /etc/skel and they will be 
placed where appropriate automatically?

Thank you,

Vojta

Vojta

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 5:13 AM Vojtěch Polášek  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to populate the "Liveuser" home directory during creation
> of live image with livecd-creator?
>
> I know that you can do it with livecd-iso-to-disk, but I would like to
> do it in the kickstart. When I try to put something in /home/liveuser,
> it still does not exist during creation process.
>
> Where can I find this directory which will become the home?
>
> Or is it enough to put those things into /etc/skel and they will be
> placed where appropriate automatically?

Normally, liveuser is created on live media boot, using the livesys
init scripts that are added at kickstart time. You don't have those,
so that's probably why that isn't working.

The liveuser setup init script is in the fedora-live-base kickstart
file that all fedora live kickstarts include:
https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/blob/master/f/fedora-live-base.ks

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[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> is it possible to populate the "Liveuser" home directory during
> creation of live image with livecd-creator?

I populate /root and /etc/skel during the media creation... to copy over all of the content from which I create the media.  Here's what I put in my "%post --nochroot" secton.  I don't know if you'll find this helpful or not.

# MontanaLinux stuff
HOSTDIR="/root/livecd-creator/MontanaLinux"
cp -f "$HOSTDIR/.tmux.conf" "$INSTALL_ROOT/etc/skel/"
cp -f "$HOSTDIR/.tmux.conf" "$INSTALL_ROOT/root/"
mkdir "$INSTALL_ROOT/root/livecd-creator"
cp -f -r $HOSTDIR "$INSTALL_ROOT/root/livecd-creator/"

Note, what you put in /etc/skel (completely unrelated to live media) will be copied to new (local) user's home directories.  And that includes the liveuser.

TYL,