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Having SELinux enabled (even if not enforcing) in the appliance causes troubles to applications/libraries that read/write SELinux attributes. --- builder/builder.ml | 6 +++++- customize/customize_main.ml | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builder/builder.ml b/builder/builder.ml index a407924..5195cfd 100644 --- a/builder/builder.ml +++

...sswords = let crypto = match password_crypto with | None -> default_crypto ~prog g root | Some c -> c in + (* Create a (almost) empty temporary file with the attributes of + * /etc/shadow, so we can restore them later. + *) + let tempfile = g#mktemp "/etc/shadow.guestfsXXXXXX" in + g#write tempfile "*"; + g#copy_attributes ~all:true "/etc/shadow" tempfile; + g#aug_init "/" 0; let users = Array.to_list (g#aug_ls "/files/etc/shadow") in List.iter ( @@ -116,9 +123,11 @@ let rec set_linux_passwords ~prog ?password_cryp...

...tool dies during the "Setting passwords" step because it's attempting to create a temp file in /etc and my ISO doesn't have an /etc directory at this point. Here's a snippet that shows the error message: [ 16.0] Setting passwords libguestfs: trace: mktemp "/etc/shadow.guestfsXXXXXX" libguestfs: trace: mktemp = NULL (error) virt-builder: error: libguestfs error: mktemp: /etc/shadow.guestfsyU5Zwo: No such file or directory Is there a particular ISO format that virt-builder expects? As a test, I used virt-builder to successfully create a centos-6 image. I looked in my .c...