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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0002042Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2015-02-03 22:072025-07-14 09:38
ReporterPokeswap Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityN/A
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version1.0.9 
Summary0002042: toor password does not work live image
Description

I have ran lb clean --purge
lb config
lb build
after updating. Everything worked fine in the build.
I went to plug in the USB (after dd). The root password of "toor" doesn't work. Upon further investigating, I found that live-build-config/chroot/etc/password contains an x in the password field for root, meaning that it should be stored in /etc/shadow. There, it shows *, meaning password is disabled

Steps To Reproduce

lb clean --purge
lb config
lb build

Additional Information

Tried "clean" lb and my normal lb. still no toor root password or my usual root password

Activities

Pokeswap

Pokeswap

2015-02-03 22:11

reporter   ~0002987

File is no longer binary.hybrid.iso it is live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso
rhertzog

rhertzog

2015-02-04 14:12

administrator   ~0002992

The root password is set at boot time. See config/includes.chroot/lib/live/config/0031-root-password

So it's expected that in the "chroot" directory, you get a root withtout password. But when you actually boot the live system, it's updated and you can login with "toor".

I just checked with a recent image, and the toor password is correctly set for me. You must have done something wrong on your side...

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-02-03 22:07 Pokeswap New Issue
2015-02-03 22:11 Pokeswap Note Added: 0002987
2015-02-04 14:12 rhertzog Note Added: 0002992
2015-02-04 14:12 rhertzog Status new => closed
2015-02-04 14:12 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2015-02-04 14:12 rhertzog Resolution open => no change required
2025-07-14 09:17 g0tmi1k Priority urgent => normal
2025-07-14 09:38 g0tmi1k Severity crash => minor