[Live-demo] Re: FW: Question on xubuntu click2try image

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Arun,
I've followed your instructions and have now successfully created a new
user=user, pass=pass. (I've called the VM cameron1 for the moment).

Tom,
How do you recommend we move forward if we wish to start from XUbuntu 9.10,
instead of 9.04.

I can try to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, which should work,  but I might not
have a clean xubuntu 9.10 at the end.
Is it straight forward to create a new xubuntu 9.10 base image?

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Arun Sharma <arun.s at tecnics.com> wrote:

>
> Hello Cameron,
>
> I have attached modified  common-password which can be placed under
> /etc/pam.d/ of vm.
> Once we place above file then we can create user "user" and set password.
>
> Here are the steps which we have followed.
>
>
>  #useradd user
>
>  #passwd user [Set the password as "user"]
>
> #usermod -u 499 user
>
> # su user
>
> Above command will create directory once we login using user "user".
>
> About ubuntu release version, yes for gisvm which we build  earlier stage
> was ubuntu904 as per requirement.
>
> Please mail us if you find issues.
>
> Thanks
> Arun sharma
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Arun Sharma" <arun.s at tecnics.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:17:03
> To: Tom Callaghan<tom.callaghan at click2try.com>
> Subject: Re: FW: Question on xubuntu click2try image
>
> Sure Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Tom Callaghan" <tom.callaghan at click2try.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:13:44
> To: 'Arun Sharma'<arun.s at tecnics.com>
> Subject: FW: FW: Question on xubuntu click2try image
>
> Hello Arun,
>
> I'm afraid Cameron is still stuck.  Could you please offer him assistance
> directly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:27 AM
> To: Tom Callaghan
> Cc: 'Cameron Shorter'; Arun Sharma; live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: FW: Question on xubuntu click2try image
>
> Tom,
> I'm afraid that I'm still stuck on the prior issue, and have another issue:
>
> I did try the steps below, but couldn't work out what lines I was
> supposed to comment out. (I did try a few different combinations).
>
> I'm able to create a new user "user" but it doesn't create a home
> directory at /home/user (as I'd expect). And I haven't been able to set
> the password.
>
> However,
> In debugging, I've realised that the Xubuntu image that has been set up
> is for version 9.04, and we are targeting 9.10.
> What is the process for creating a new Virtual Machine? Is this
> something that I can do?
> If you are creating a new image, can you please set the default
> user=user. (If you are using the normal Xubuntu LiveDVD installer, then
> you should be able to set the default user during the install process).
>
> I've started documenting our click2try livedvd build process at:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Build#Creating_a_Click2Try_Virtual_Machi
> ne
> Feel free to update this wiki with the build process if you wish.
>
> Tom Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > Cameron,
> >
> > Here is my engineer's reply. This should fix the issue for you. Please
> > let me know if you need anything else.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > *From:* Arun Sharma [mailto:arun.s at tecnics.com]
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 25, 2010 11:36 AM
> > *To:* 'Tom Callaghan'
> > *Cc:* 'Sanjay'; 'Arun Sharma'
> > *Subject:* RE: Question on xubuntu image
> >
> > Hello Tom,
> >
> > I tried creating a vm using viewer launcher using appid "bxubdm904".
> >
> > To fix create user and set password issue "Edited the file
> > /etc/pam.d/common-password and remove the use_authtok directive from
> > the pam_unix.so line, as well as comment out the pam_cracklib.so line."
> >
> > #useradd user
> >
> > #passwd user [Set the password as "user"]
> >
> > #usermod -u 499 user
> >
> > I have tried the same for *osgeo-bxubdm904-101* on r1 . This vm is
> > saved for future user.
> >
> > Above steps should fix the issue.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Arun
> >
> > *From:* Tom Callaghan [mailto:tom.callaghan at presage-tech.com]
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 25, 2010 7:51 PM
> > *To:* 'Arun Sharma'
> > *Subject:* Question on xubuntu image
> >
> > Hello Arun,
> >
> > How are you doing? Its been a long time since we've talked. I have a
> > question. I created an appid for the xubuntu image that is a two
> > layered appliance. In their COW image I changed the root password to
> > something else. I gave this to the OSGeo guys to start working on
> > their new release. Cameron tells me that he cannot create the user id
> > user and change its password. He says he cannot sudo to the user user.
> > Can you help me with this? The appid is bxubdm904. I created a VM for
> > them in the osgeo account (password livedemo). I changed the root
> > password to livedemo in their COW file.
> >
> > I think if you log in as root, you will see what he is talking about.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> >
> > Tom
> >
>
>
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