#!/bin/bash vdir=$1 if [ -z "${vdir}" ] ; then echo "ERROR: $0" echo "Provide the directory of the root filesystem to operate on" exit fi # reset root password to be empty echo "Resetting root password in vserver-reference image" sed -i -e "s/root:\*/root:/" ${vdir}/etc/passwd # modify the sudoers file to remove the 'requiretty' attribute echo "Removing requiretty from default /etc/sudoers file" sed -i -e "s/Defaults requiretty/#Defaults requiretty/" ${vdir}/etc/sudoers