Ubuntu Customization Kit

Is it possible to change Live CD user's password?

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How can I change Live CD user's password? I need to restrict its access to sudo, ideally by making account password protected. Thank you.

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heethen (heethen) said : 		#1

Solved.

Had to manually unpack remaster-iso/initrd.lz (script uck-remaster-unpack-initrd apparently doesn't work with ubuntu 9.10):

As root:

# cd ~/tmp/remaster-iso/casper
# mkdir temp
# cd temp
# lzma -dc -S .lz ../initrd.lz | cpio -imvd --no-absolute-filenames

Then edit script 10adduser and change password there (hash ca be generated by mkpasswd tool which is in whois package):

# gedit scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser

And then pack initrd.lz again using this command:

# find . | cpio --quiet --dereference -o -H newc | lzma -7 > ../initrd.lz

Then I continued building and it seems to be working.