From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [143.182.124.21]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153E6E013A2 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2013 05:00:51 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.89,742,1367996400"; d="scan'208";a="336595435" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.176]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2013 05:00:49 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Bryan Evenson Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:00:48 +0100 Message-ID: <1925526.xFDIqGSNAm@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.8.0-26-generic; KDE/4.10.5; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <91586D499ADFD74FBCFB8425266A5DE40153AD9775E1@pluto.melinkcorp.local> References: <91586D499ADFD74FBCFB8425266A5DE40153AD9774C7@pluto.melinkcorp.local> <14175503.PQSq1zm65A@helios> <91586D499ADFD74FBCFB8425266A5DE40153AD9775E1@pluto.melinkcorp.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Default root password without 'debug-tweaks'? X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:00:54 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Thursday 25 July 2013 07:53:20 Bryan Evenson wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. And just earlier this morning, I found this > description of how to change the root password for an image: > http://bec-systems.com/site/967/setting-the-root-password-in-an-openembedded > -image. > > If this would be a suggested method of performing the task, I could > write a patch for the documentation to add the details about the > root account being locked and the suggested method for modifying the > root password. If you could point me to a good place to add this > detail, I'll send out a patch. Hmm, that method does seem a bit messy though. Ideally there would be a simple method available that didn't require you to boot the target system. Presumably it wouldn't be too hard to do it using tools on the host. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre