Adding user on LiveCD

guodah · 09-02-2010, 10:55 AM

Hello,

I am building LFS 6.5 via the LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chapter 4 which talks about adding users.

Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the machine and restarted it. I used "cat /etc/passwd" to list the users and did not find the newly added user.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Best Regards,
Dan

Andrew Benton · 09-02-2010, 01:06 PM

A cd is a read only file system, any changes (which happen in RAM) will be lost when you shutdown. The solution is to simply add the lfs user again.

guodah · 09-02-2010, 01:33 PM

Thanks for your response, Andy!