Hurray! Thanks Dean! I know understand that I have to unlock the account AFTER I rebuild the image and reboot the client. I was trying to unlock it before I rebuilt the image.
So for future reference the steps should be: 1. sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 2. issue the "passwd" command and changed the password 3. exit the chroot environment 4. sudo ltsp-update-image 5. reboot the thin client 6. sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 and do passwd -u Now I am able to login to the tc image. Thanks to all for your help. John On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Dean Mumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be sure to unlock the account , in chroot passwd -u root > > -original message- > Subject: Re: hardy: unable to change root passwd on thinclient image > From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 13/06/2008 12:58 am > > Hi Ville et al. > >> I am not able to test this now, but shuold You do this in reverse >> order? First update-image (if/when needed) and then chroot in opt and >> set the password. >> > I am pretty sure that the image is built second otherwise it won't > benefit from the password change. > Passing the unlock -u option then rebuilding didn't work either. > > I haven't been able to get rebuild this image so that I can get in to > it. Has anyone _ever_ managed to get into a client image on LTSP 8.04? > If so did you follow the same steps I did? I am trying to decide > whether to migrate from 7.04 to 8.10 this summer on 100+ clients and > not being able to access the images for debug would be a show stopper. > > John >> >> Ville Pöntinen >> Raisio, Finland >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >> > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
