root login

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I have built an image of Leap 42.3 that I am trying in qemu. When it
eventually gets to the login, it is not accepting my root password. It
was originally obtained via kiwi −−createpassword long ago. So maybe
that is not compatible with kiwi ng. I thought I would generate a new
password string. But I do not seem to find how. I have searched
through the docs at https://suse.github.io/kiwi/index.html# and must
not be specifying the right search pattern. Same with looking at the
kiwi command line help and man page.

Am I blind? (probably...)

So, how goes one generate the password string for kiwi ng?

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[Till Dörges]

config.xml lets you specify users, e.g.

--- snip ---
<users>
<user id="0" name="root" groups="root" home="/root" password="<hash>" />
<user name="x" groups="a,b,c" home="/home/x" password="*" />
</users>
--- snap ---


Documentation would be here:

https://suse.github.io/kiwi/development/schema.html#id297


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[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

> I have built an image of Leap 42.3 that I am trying in qemu. When it
> eventually gets to the login, it is not accepting my root password. It
> was originally obtained via kiwi −−createpassword long ago. So maybe
> that is not compatible with kiwi ng.

I think that's not a compatbility question of the image builder but
more a question what password digests are accepted by the Leap42.3
distribution.

In kiwi-ng I use the following to create passwd compatible hashes

openssl passwd -1 -salt 'xyz', password

Regards,
Marcus
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