or at least a chroot environment I wrote a fai script to set the root passwords of the vagrant boxes. There are multiple ways of doing this but I settled to use:
echo root:vagrant | chpasswd now as this should happen in the FAI install chroot I initially wrote: $ROOTCMD echo root:vagrant | chpasswd where $ROOTCMD is interpolated to chroot /tmp/fai-tmp-build and it changed the root password of my *build* host. See the mistake ? Things before the pipe are interpreted by the shell as a single command construct, so /bin/echo was running inside the chroot, but chpasswd was running outside the chroot. The proper fix was of course to write: echo root:vagrant | $ROOTCMD chpasswd Emmanuel
