remastered ISO shows my deleted user accounts at login

[lonesomepoint]

The antiX-snapshot ISO remastering process is very easy and I'm pleased with the result, but it can have some odd quirks. The one I just saw again is: I left my user accounts out of the remaster (by editing the file that specified what files to ignore), but when I burned the finished ISO to a disc and ran it, I saw that bthe login screen displayed the names of my two user accounts despite that they weren't actually there (I checked). It's not very important, but why would this happen?

If it matters, I use the KDE Trinity login manager even if I don't have other Trinity software installed. Perhaps antix-snapshot and kdm-trinity don't work perfectly together?

[lucky9]

I'd say kdm-trinity has a few problems.

[golinuxgo]

Just as an experiment, why don't you try the original refractasnapshot to see if it behaves the same. If it works then there is something funky in the port to Mepis. If it does the same thing, I suggest asking fsmithred over on the refracta forums as he is the original author. NOTE . . . if the script has been modified by the MEPIS devs for Trinity, the original might not work at all.

[golinuxgo]

I just noticed you marked this as solved but didn't provide and explanation. Care to share?

[lonesomepoint]

I just decided that Lucky's explanation (a problem in kdm-trinity) was likely enough and I didn't care to make the effort to research further, as this was an interesting but trivial issue.

[Earl57]

If you added /home/user to your ignore list, you did not actually delete those user accounts, so those users will still be listed at the login screen. You must use your user
manager program to delete or modify users--A VERY RISKY PROPOSITION! Back up your /home partition first!(assuming you have /home on a separate partition) if you choose to do this.(I wouldn't).

I use Refracta Snapshot on my M12 Beta install and have the same issue. I would rather live with a "dirty" .iso than risk losing all my user accounts and data, so I am leaving it like it is. If I really wanted to clean it up, I would install from my homemade dvd to another HDD with a single partition, then delete the user accounts, then set up a root and a user account with passwords(say, root/root and Demo/demo). You might modify Grub now, if need be, and maybe load a generic video driver. Then do a fresh .iso build. You should wind up with a "clean" liveCD with no crumbs remaining from your original system, and with all your updated programs.

Not for sure that this will work--I think it will. I will try it this week as I am on vacation, and I want to upgrade the wifes' laptop from M11 to M12beta. Others may know of an easier way to do it.