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.


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