Steady as a rock

Argh, as part of a top 25 of “Bad but Gold” songs (think YMCA and co), TMF just aired Rick as well. RICKROLLED!

Inspired by the latest launchpad news, here is a better version of launchpadduser.py. It does more sanity checking, can be used as a module and allows you to use a different name locally than on launchpad (eg sudo ./launchpadduser.py –launchpad-name kiko christian) Enjoy!

In related news: It’s now happened too often that I had to walk a user through the boot with live cd/find partition/chroot/passwd hoops after they forget the password for their account. So I whipped up a shellscript that one can wget and run from a live cd. It searches for partitions with linux installs on them and allows you to the password for any account on them that has a usable password. So now these hoops are reduced to:

• Boot from a live cd
• Go to applications » accessories » terminal
• Type this: wget http://media.kaarsemaker.net/reset_passwords && bash reset_passwords
• Reboot