remastersys changed my login

[bwana]

Was using backtrack5 on a hard drive. made some changes (like adding remastersys!) and did a backup(using remastersys). replaced my current version of backtrack5 on a usb stick.
Boots into command line with
postgres@postgres$

I used to be root#

What happened?

tried login root and got

Cannot possibly login as root without user


So, I asked the author of remastersys what's up and he said:

The backtrack folks must do something different than ubuntu. When you remaster, you are remastering like ubuntu and it appears the backtrack devs do something different.
The ubuntu live scripts called casper basically disable the root account during live boot.
If you can find out from the backtrack folks what they have done differently I might be able to do something about it.


help?

[Scamentology]

My root account works fine with the default remastersys rebuild. The only difference was the login screen which I will have to do extra work to get grub to load in the original manner. They definitely did something different.

[qhent]

I hope I am not stating the obvious or attempting to be insulting but here are the steps I used to configure Remastersys' graphical user interface:

1. Launch the "Remastersys Backup" utility.
2. Highlight "Modify" and click "OK."
3. Highlight "a" to modify the default "Username." Enter "root" without the quotes and click "OK"
4. Run Remastersys to create a distro or backup.

This will result in the root configuration being default (vice Remastersys' "custom" user which doesn't exist in BT5). You will have to login using "root" and "toor" for the userid and password before you get a root prompt and can run the startx command.

Honestly, I knew Remastersys would want to add its bootloader configuration (splash screen and /isolinux/syslinux.cfg files differ from BackTrack's). I just used an .iso editor and copied over the beautiful BT5 splash.png and syslinux.cfg files found in the original BT5 iso file into my newly remastered iso file's /syslinux directory overwriting the old ones. Problem solved for me. Sounds awkward but it works nicely.

Have an OUTSTANDING day!