[maemo-developers] becomeroot once again but with password

[From: Neil Jerram]

Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:27:39PM +0100, Marc Zonzon wrote:
>
>> because I don't want to open root to anybody, to put a password for user was
>> not alsways convenient even with 770 as pointed in the BecomeRoot2 howto, and 
>> it seems that on N800 the system want to forbid it because it answers:
>> 
>> ~ $ passwd
>> The password for user cannot be changed.
>
> That's because you are running passwd as user, and user doesn't have a
> password set.  If you run 'passwd user' as root, it should work.

Yes, that works (at least it did on the 770).  I've used this to set a
password for user so that I can then run an FTP server for user.

Regards,
     Neil