root user in standard jail

[billgreenwood]

My searching as not found the answer to this, but can a root password be set for the root account in a standard jail?

If so, pointers to instructions would be helpful.


Thanks in advance.


B.

 

[dlavigne]

Yup. While in the jail as root, run passwd and follow the prompts.

 

[billgreenwood]

I tried this ..... (my jail is called PresStore)

root@PresStore:/ # passwd
Changing local password for root
passwd: pam_start(): system error

 

[dlavigne]

Which build version of FreeNAS (from System -> Information)? Was the jail created on this installation or carried over from an earlier (pre-9.3) version?

 

[billgreenwood]

This is a FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201601181840
Jail was created after install
ok
Did a fresh jail and it worked. The other must be borked@!
Here I was googleing for ages on this and learning about PAM and I could have just created a fresh jail!!

DOH

TY dlavigne