Unattended Install about wsl-distrolauncher

[kousu]

Ah, I read the docs: there's

wsl -u root

which partially helps. If, say, you generalized --root to --user which worked so that, given --user someone, DistroLauncher runs useradd -m someone instead of using adduser then it won't prompt, and I can later use wsl -u root passwd someone to set the password, or echo 'someone:pass' | wsl -u root chpasswd to set it noninteractively.

[kousu]

..and now I just noticed ubuntu1804 config --default-user username. Which pretty much covers everything I want.

DistroLauncher could make this smoother maybe with more obvious flags, but this works fine:

<distro>.exe install --root

wsl -u root -d <distro> useradd -m "$username"
wsl -u root -d <distro> sh -c "echo "${username}:${password}" | chpasswd"
wsl -u root -d <distro> chsh -s /bin/bash "$username"
wsl -u root -d <distro> usermod -aG adm,cdrom,sudo,dip,plugdev "$username"

<distro>.exe config --default-user "$username"

[kousu]

Or, this is even better:

Given that you've grabbted the .appx link for a distro:

$distro = "ubuntu1804"
$distro_link = "https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804"

$username = "ubuntu"
$password = "ubuntu"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $distro_link -OutFile ~/${distro}.appx -UseBasicParsing
Add-AppxPackage -Path ~/${distro}.appx


& $distro install --root

& $distro run useradd -m "$username"
& $distro run sh -c "echo "${username}:${password}" | chpasswd"
& $distro run chsh -s /bin/bash "$username"
& $distro run usermod -aG adm,cdrom,sudo,dip,plugdev "$username"

& $distro config --default-user "$username"