PASSWD-IN-IMAGE(1)

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version 0.35 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PASSWD-IN-IMAGE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the passwd-in-image manual page — it lives in the FreedomBox Manual family, and it's literally the glow-up tool for changing a user's password inside a disk image file. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

passwd-in-image — change password of a user inside a disk image file

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

passwd-in-image [image] [user] [--password {PASSWORD}] [-h, --help]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so FreedomBox is a community project, right? it's all about developing, designing and promoting personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. it's a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. it hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay on a device that can replace a wireless router so that data stays with the users. main character energy fr fr. 👑

then we've got freedom-maker — a tool to build FreedomBox images for various single board computers, virtual machines and general purpose computers. iconic.

and the Password in image script? that's our girl. she lets you change the password of a user in an image file generated by freedom-maker. slay. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • image — Disk image file (.img or .vdi) inside which user manipulation is sought. yes, she's the file you're going in on. 🫶
  • user — User account to change password for. the one getting the new vibe.
  • --password PASSWORD — New password for the user. give her the fresh ✨secret✨.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Example 1. Change password for fbx default user in BeagleBone image

$ passwd-in-image freedom-maker-beaglebone.img fbx
      --password somepassword

Change the password of the user with username someuser to somepassword. 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

See the freedom-maker issue tracker[1] for a full list of known issues and TODO items. (not me sending you to the tracker, but like, it's all there, iykyk 🙈)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

FreedomBox Developers

🎀 NOTES 🎀

  1. freedom-maker issue tracker https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedom-maker/-/issues

version 0.32, dated 02/03/2026, from the FreedomBox Manual crew — and that's the whole page, bestie. go forth and change those passwords. mwah. 💋✨🦋

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