How to add user while building ISO?

[nitish.patel]

After creating an ISO, I want to add an user at the time of installing the ISO, How can I achieve it?

Let me know which files do I need to modify so that I can get the user created after installing the ISO.

Cheers,
Nitish

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I add a user named "vagrant" to OPNsense in my development environment project:

https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-opnsense

You are welcome to "steal" the couple of lines of code.

[nitish.patel]

Thanks you for your response. Can you please let me know what is the process or which file do I need to change or what lines of code do I need to add so that an user will get created at the time of installation.

Cheers,
Nitish

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Have you had a look at my code? It's full of comments ...

Lines 80 ff. of Vagrantfile plus files vagrant1.xml and vagrant3.xml show you exactly what to do.

[nitish.patel]

Hi Patrick,
Thank you for your response.
I have seen your file, but I am confused about which repository of OPNsense I should add this code.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I don't know how OPNsense builds its ISO. The one that does this, obviously. That's your "homework". From the responses you got you can guess that probably nobody here ever built an OPNsense install ISO. This is the community forum, not the OPNsense developers.

Seriously, the OPNsense build toolchain seems to be this repository:

https://github.com/opnsense/tools

Have you cloned that already and set up a build environment as documented? I'd start with that, then let the build process run a couple of times watching what it does, to get a feeling for which parts do which job.

Then you can try to find any hooks or places for scripts for customisation.

EDIT: just the README in that repo contains a ton of information about the build process - exactly what you are asking for.

HTH,
Patrick