On Monday, 2011-09-05 at 06:50:05 -0700, Bojan Sukalo wrote:
Thank You. That helped a lot.
You're welcome.
I know we supposed to finish this thread and start another but I need hint a bout ssh server.
Starting an sshd from script does the job but I have problem because root password is empty so I not access the server.
I would propose that you use a key to access root on this server rather than a password. While you could overwrite /etc/passwd from grml.sh or config.tbz, I would not recommend to do that.
Here is what I do:
1) Create /root/.ssh/authorized_keys 2) Save these files and directories to /mnt/GRMLCFG/config.tbz: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub /root/.ssh 3) Log in with the key
Is there a workaroud. bootoption ssh:mysecret does not seem to start the sshd or to change password for grml user.
That should be ssh=password not ssh:password.
Even if it does, will I abe able to change from grml to root without knowing the root pass.
May I suggest "sudo su -"? The grml user has full sudoers rights, without a password. But with the default /etc/shadow, "su -" does not request a password.
If you want to use /mnt/GRMLCFG/config.tbz, here is what I use to manage it. I write the file and directory names to /mnt/GRMLCFG/config.list and run this little script (/mnt/GRMLCFG/save-config) to refresh /mnt/GRMLCFG/config.tbz:
#!/bin/sh
tar cvfjpP /mnt/GRMLCFG/config.tbz -T /mnt/GRMLCFG/config.list
HTH, Lupe Christoph