At 13:36 03/03/2008 -0500, Chris Vaughan wrote: >The root filesystem is likely mounted read only.
Thanks, that did it: ======= # mount -o remount rw / # passwd Changing password for root New password: Retype password: Password for root changed by root # mount -o ro,remount / ======= What I don't understand, though, is that I'm using UnionFS, so that the root partition should be read-write: ======= # cat /oldroot/cdrom/os/astlinux-trunk-1566.run.conf KCMD="root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc astlinux=geni586 astimg=astlinux-trunk-1566.run asturw=/dev/hda2 astlive ide=nodma" KERN="/mnt/root/boot/bzImage" FSTYPE="squashfs" INITRD="/mnt/base/os/initrd.img" ======= # mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on /oldroot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /oldroot/cdrom type vfat (ro,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1) /dev/hda2 on /oldroot/mnt/asturw type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on /oldroot/mnt/asturo type tmpfs (ro) none on / type unionfs (ro,dirs=/oldroot/mnt/asturw=rw:/oldroot/mnt/asturo=ro) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type tmpfs (rw) none on /var type tmpfs (rw) none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) ======= I noticed that /usr/bin/passwd is actually a symlink to /sbin/astwrap, which is a shell script. Is that the reason why? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
