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Change Chromium OS root password? #209
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The command you're looking for is |
Thanks. Perhaps they'll find it here now.. |
it is still asking me for my password... I followed the command in the terminal |
Like many modern linux systems It looks like you don't know the password for root once you use this command (it has probably actually been disabled). Instead you've set the password for an account named 'chronos' which has sudo access. (Looking at the /etc/shadow this account would seem to be similarly disabled, yet it works, which implies the authentication is done through some other system.) |
CrOS doesn't use This is the
It sets an encrypted 'chronos' password in -DennisL |
You can write an alias if you are used to using
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Can I change the developer-mode root password (created when I set up an encrypted crouton chroot)? At the shell prompt, "sudo passwd" fails with "Authentication: token lock busy", apparently because /dev/root is mounted read-only. I can revert to user mode and start over, but is there an easier way?
(This is my first post -- just getting started with crouton and very impressed. Thanks!)
Bill
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