You need to change the password in /usbkey/shadow. Use /usr/lib/cryptpass to generate a compatible hash.
/usbkey/shadow is lofi mounted over /etc/shadow. -- Brian Bennett Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations, Joyent, Inc. 655 Montgomery St., Suite 1600 | San Francisco | California | 94111 [email protected] | www.joyent.com > On Apr 28, 2015, at 2:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed SmartOS Live Image v0.147+ build: 20150423T155306Z > > Changing the password for root does not work: > > # passwd > passwd: Changing password for root > New Password: > Re-enter new Password: > passwd: Unexpected failure. Password database unchanged. > Permission denied > > What could go wrong? > > Carsten > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26986985-d0246faa > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
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