zfs discuss - Jun 2006 - Root password fix on zfs root filesystem

Currently, when the root password is forgotten / munged, I boot from the cdrom
into a shell, mount the root filesystem on /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/shadow,
blowing away the root password.
 
What is going to happen when the root filesystem is ZFS? Hopefully the same
mechanism will be available.
 
Ron Halstead
 
 
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Ron Halstead wrote:
> Currently, when the root password is forgotten / munged, I boot from the
cdrom into a shell, mount the root filesystem on /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/shadow,
blowing away the root password.
>  
> What is going to happen when the root filesystem is ZFS? Hopefully the same
mechanism will be available.
>  
A similar mechanism will do what you want.  The only difference
is that while booted from the cdrom, you would have to use
the "zfs import" command to import the root pool.  Then you
can mount the root dataset and modify it as needed.

Lori