[OpenIndiana-discuss] mounting an existing system on a boot image

Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabowski at kit.edu
Mon Sep 10 10:05:15 UTC 2018


On 10/09/2018 11:57, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 10/09/2018 11:55, Marc Lobelle wrote:
>> Thanks Udo and Jean Pierre: a small detail:I must be root to do this: where
>> can I find the root pwd of the live image ?
>
> sudo bash
> echo $PWD

:-) just mocking, there usually is no password for root, its just
a role, you have to sudo from the jack account. On a production
system, you can change that deleting the /etc/user_attr type=role
entry for root (or using the -R options for usermod) and setting
a passwd.
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