Disable autologin and change the hostname in BT5 R1 Persistent

[Gachl]

Greetings,

I installed BT5 R1 persistent on my USB stick but I can't seem to change the hostname. Every time I reboot it reverts to "root". This is what I did:

root@root:~# hostname testname
root@root:~# echo testname > /etc/hostname
root@root:~# hostname
testname
root@root:~# logout
root@testname:~# _

It works but it won't stay, if anyone could tell me what I'm obviously doing wrong?

My other issue is that when I boot BT it automatically logs in the root user. I tried changing the /etc/init/tty*.conf files to call /bin/login without parameters (default is /bin/login -f root) but every time I reboot the files are getting reverted to the original and root is being logged in again.

I guess those files keep reverting because of some startup script that keeps loading default values but I can't find them, so if anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be really great!

Thank you!
~Gachl

[gunrunr]

are you sure its persistent? Do your other changes stay? Those are parameters i never really found the need to change. We don't really recommend logging in as anything other than root, mostly because most of the tools here require it.

[maxfx]

Gachl what caind of installation did you make?
Have you tried this: Persistent USB

Cheers

[robertoakira1]

Greetings,

I installed BT5 R1 persistent on my USB stick but I can't seem to change the hostname. Every time I reboot it reverts to "root". This is what I did:

root@root:~# hostname testname
root@root:~# echo testname > /etc/hostname
root@root:~# hostname
testname
root@root:~# logout
root@testname:~# _

It works but it won't stay, if anyone could tell me what I'm obviously doing wrong?

My other issue is that when I boot BT it automatically logs in the root user. I tried changing the /etc/init/tty*.conf files to call /bin/login without parameters (default is /bin/login -f root) but every time I reboot the files are getting reverted to the original and root is being logged in again.

I guess those files keep reverting because of some startup script that keeps loading default values but I can't find them, so if anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be really great!

Thank you!
~Gachl

Hi all,

I have the same problem here in my USB persistent backtrack 5 R2. How can i disable auto login in usb persistent mode?

Thank you