[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation to ZFS partition on NVME drive - login issues

John D Groenveld groenveld at acm.org
Sun Jan 18 14:57:24 UTC 2026


In message <SJ0PR05MB932781674035CBADA5CBEBAAA98AA at SJ0PR05MB9327.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>, Gireesh writes:
>When I do "chroot /mnt /usr/sbin/passwd root" I get chroot: exec failed no such file or directory. When I browse /mnt/
>usr/sbin there is no passwd executable in that directory.
>There is a /mnt/usr/bin/passwd  but running "chroot /mnt /usr/bin/passwd root" gives me permission denied.

That seems to be a bug.
I see that beadm mount includes exec/setuid

The work around is to edit /mnt/etc/shadow and remove root's password.

John
groenveld at acm.org



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