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title: Changing the root password in recent SmartOS
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date: 12.05.2014 22:02
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Back in 2012 Jonathan Perkin wrote a little bit about [SmartOS and the global zone][perkin],
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why and what in SmartOS is mounted read-only.
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Back then `/etc/shadow`, the file containing the root password, was mounted with write permissions.
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It is not anymore:
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~~~shell
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# ls -l /etc/shadow
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-r-------- 1 root root 560 May 12 19:51 /etc/shadow
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~~~
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And thus `passwd` will fail when trying to change the password.
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But it's easy to circumvent this. It's actually a lofs-mount as can be seen:
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~~~shell
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# mount | grep shadow
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/etc/shadow on /usbkey/shadow read/write/setuid/devices/dev=1690008 on Mon May 12 20:05:36 2014
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~~~
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So to change your password use the following:
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~~~shell
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/usr/lib/cryptpass your-fancy-password
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# replace crypt string in /usbkey/shadow
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umount /etc/shadow
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mount -F lofs /usbkey/shadow /etc/shadow
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~~~
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1. will create the crypt string of your password. Make sure to remove it from your bash history afterwards
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2. place this string in `/usbkey/shadow` (it's the long string between the first two `:`)
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3. unmount the file in place
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4. remount the right file back in place
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And that's it, the new root password is set.
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[perkin]: http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/smartos-and-the-global-zone.html
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