How can ı change root password

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1

hello ı have a colibri imx6 linux computer on module. I want to change root password to “xxxyyyy”

how can ı do this ?

2

One can use ‘passwd’ for more information on using it, refer the man page.

3

Hi Bhuvan,

How can you setup password for the root account during build?

thanks.

4

If you are using OpenEmbedded to build rootfs, you can just add following to bb file, e.g. angstrom-lxde-image.bb

EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "usermod -P YOUR_PASSWORD root;"