[systemd-devel] how to login into a container booting with a minimal 'debian distro unstable' via nspawn

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Florian Held <floriheld at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> how is it possible to log in into a container booting a minimal unstable
> debian distro via nspawn. After running:
>
> # debootstrap --arch=amd64 unstable ~/debian-tree/
> # systemd-nspawn -bD ~/debian-tree/
>
> prompts username followed by password. The combination
>
> "root"
> ""
>
> without quotes doesn't work. How can I login?
>
>
Does debootstrap actually create a passwordless root account?

If it's passwordless, make sure pam_securetty.so is not active (in the
container's /etc/pam.d).


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Mantas Mikulėnas
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