Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > Joe Baker wrote: > >> I'm trying to change the root password with a keydisk that boots against >> a livecd. Is this possible? >> >> I've tried copying over /etc/shadow to /mnt/kd/shadow but this doesn't >> seem to work. >> >> Thanks! >> -Joe Baker >> > > Joe, > > This is not possible with a livecd currently. There has been some > discussion about using either a symbolic link to /mnt/kd/passwd, shadow > etc if they exist, but so far Kristian has been against that idea. > Another possibility is using unionfs. Neither has been implemented yet. > > Darrick > Thanks for your timely response. I did an installation to the hard drive and now it's using the Keydisk. I think the password is persistent now. Still using a keydisk for the settings though.
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