Changing default user from "user" to something else in AppVMs
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John Toohey
Sep 5, 2016, 2:48:51 PM9/5/16
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Hi,
Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running. I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are created?
Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running. I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are created?
~JT
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Sep 5, 2016, 3:00:59 PM9/5/16
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:48:50AM -0700, John Toohey wrote:
> Hi,
> Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running. I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are created?
In short: sorry, not possible. Most of tools (like ssh, irc etc) support
setting default username to something else than logged in user. You can
also try changing $USER and/or $LOGNAME environment variables.
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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:48:50AM -0700, John Toohey wrote:
> Hi,
> Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running. I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are created?
setting default username to something else than logged in user. You can
also try changing $USER and/or $LOGNAME environment variables.
- --
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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Andrew
Sep 5, 2016, 5:11:13 PM9/5/16
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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki:
out from the crowd of Qubes users more in case of limited AppVM
compromise (e.g. FBI CIPAV).
Andrew
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:48:50AM -0700, John Toohey wrote:
>> Hi, Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running.
>> I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged
>> in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from
>> the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to
>> set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are
>> created?
>
> In short: sorry, not possible. Most of tools (like ssh, irc etc)
> support setting default username to something else than logged in
> user. You can also try changing $USER and/or $LOGNAME environment
> variables.
>
>
Seems to me like this might be a bad idea, anyway, as you might stick
>> Hi, Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running.
>> I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged
>> in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from
>> the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to
>> set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are
>> created?
>
> In short: sorry, not possible. Most of tools (like ssh, irc etc)
> support setting default username to something else than logged in
> user. You can also try changing $USER and/or $LOGNAME environment
> variables.
>
>
out from the crowd of Qubes users more in case of limited AppVM
compromise (e.g. FBI CIPAV).
Andrew
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