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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,11:06 QUOTE
I am trying to create a new dsl using the deb2dsl script, which requires a new user to be made. i cannot add a user to the live CD (0.9.1) with "cannot rewrite password file" message being received.
It is possible to add users in the Knoppix livecd.
Any way out of this?
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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,15:50 QUOTE
It is definitely possible to add a new user to DSL...Try 'vipw' (know how to use vi, or set EDITOR=nano or something else first)

Try upgrading to DSL 0.9.3, and next time tell us 'how' you are trying to add the user =) via a script/command/vipw?

If its a linking problem, unlink the file...

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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,16:15 QUOTE
Quote (tronik @ Feb. 05 2005,10:50)
It is definitely possible to add a new user to DSL...Try 'vipw' (know how to use vi, or set EDITOR=nano or something else first)

Try upgrading to DSL 0.9.3, and next time tell us 'how' you are trying to add the user =) via a script/command/vipw?

If its a linking problem, unlink the file...

I did a search and found these pointers

See these threads for help:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....%shadow

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....%shadow

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....%shadow

But they do not say how I can add a new user to the liveCD and backup and save to the CD so that after that when i reboot the CD this new user is available.

The thing is apart from ftp and ssh, some apps need a special user - namely postgresql cannot be used without postgres user!

I am trying to make a postgresql dsl. When I apt-get the install fails as there is no user "postgres"

I tried adduser or useradd command. This problem is due to the password file not being writeable. It is a known bug which was not there in 0.8.0 - according to Roberts - but has come into the subsequent versions and hung on :-(
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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,17:49 QUOTE
Adding users to liveCD, is right on the menu,  from the main menu: System->AddUsers
This was setup for temporary users for ftp or ssh access.

If you want to "keep" these users then take a look at the script /etc/init.d/ssh_addusers to see the files involved.
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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,19:51 QUOTE
i read the /etc/init.d/dsl-config script. this executed at startup. part of it is:
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 if checkbootparam "users"; then
     /etc/init.d/ssh_addusers
  fi

so users is a cheatcode you can add to you bootoptions to make the passwd, and group file writeable
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