feat(iso): Allow supplementary password/settings file (#9)

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@@ -117,12 +117,31 @@ To get a zpool with unencrypted datasets export the shell variable `ARCHZBM_ZFSP
export ARCHZBM_ZFSPROPS_NO_ENCRYPTION=yup
```
### Passwords
By default both the zpool password and the account password for `root` are literally `password`. While you can certainly change these after initial system setup you can also optionally set these passwords in a settings file named `archzbm_settings.env` that lives in your current working directory where you're about to execute the script. File format is identical to shell variable assignments of the form `VAR=value` or `VAR='value'`.
If `./archzbm_settings.env` exists the script will `source` its content and `export` all variables for use in future steps. Only known variables are:
```
ARCHZBM_ZPOOL_PASSWORD='a fancy password'
ARCHZBM_ROOT_PASSWORD='t0psecr3t!'
```
The script does create a second user named `build` but doesn't set a password on account creation. As such no password variable can be set for it in `./archzbm_settings.env`. It's intended as a helper for system setup tasks such as `sudo -u build paru -S <package>` where an account password is irrelevant since `root` can always `sudo` whatever it wants. You will not be able to log in to the `build` account yourself although you certainly could set a password for it. Instead we suggest you create a proper user account for yourself. Your newly installed Arch Linux comes with an `/etc/motd` greeting that summarizes this as:
```
useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash --user-group --groups wheel <user>
passwd <user>
```
# Steps
The script takes the following installation steps.
1. Install ZFS tools and kernel module with [github.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs](https://github.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs)
1. Create one ZFS zpool on top of zpool partition, encrypted and compressed datasets, password `password`
1. _See paragraph [Passwords](#passwords) to predefine your own passwords in a settings file_
1. _See paragraphs [Compression](#compression)/[Encryption](#encryption) to optionally disable properties_
1. Create dataset for Arch Linux and `/home`
1. Install Arch Linux into pool
@@ -156,7 +175,7 @@ After installation you're going to want to at least touch these points in your n
- Hostname: Installation chose a pseudo-randomly generated 8-character string with `pwgen`
- Check `hostnamectl set-hostname <hostname>`
- Unprivileged user accounts: The OS was installed with `root` and unprivileged `build` users
- Passwords
- Unless you had a settings file per [Passwords](#passwords) you're going to want to change passwords now:
- ZFS: The password for all datasets underneath `zpool` is `password`.
- Local `root` account: The local `root` account's password is `password`.
- Arch User Repository (AUR) helper: We installed [paru](https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru) as our AUR helper, we installed from GitHub via `makepkg -si` then replaced itself with its [paru-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/paru-bin) version from AUR.
@@ -193,7 +212,7 @@ After installation you're going to want to at least touch these points in your n
# Password change
After installation you're going to want to change your ZFS encryption password.
After installation you're going to want to change your ZFS encryption password (unless you preconfigured a good zpool password in a settings file per [Passwords](#passwords)). At any rate you still want to be familiar with the process and its caveat in case you ever need a zpool password change or want to do one now.
## Steps