Re: Root password problem

2009-06-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:12:51AM -0400, Adam Mooz wrote: > Hey list, [...] > [...] Allowing sudo su access might not be the best idea > for the implementation so in the final disk I'd like to avoid using sudo. Then I wrote: > D

Re: Root password problem

2009-06-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: > passwd -d typo, should be 'passwd -d root' instead. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Root password problem

2009-06-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Adam Mooz wrote: > How can I set the root password to be blank cat > config/chroot_local-hooks/empty-root-password.sh << EOF #!/bin/sh passwd -d EOF > or better yet a pre-defined password? cat > config/chroot_local-hooks/predefined-root-password.sh << EOF #!/bin/sh echo "root:predefined_passwo

Re: Root password problem

2009-06-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:12:51AM -0400, Adam Mooz wrote: > Hey list, > > First post! :) [...] > root password to be blank, no luck! Do you really need a root password? Note that the standard live user has sudo capabilities. Regards - -- tomás ---

Root password problem

2009-06-19 Thread Adam Mooz
Hey list, First post! :) So I'm building a faily-specialized live-cd which requires that I am able to get root access when the disk is booted. I've done just about everything I can think of to get this going, following the suggestions on the wiki, I cannot change the root password or the passwor