Hey all, i just setup smartos in qemu to play around with it. I downloaded the webui and portfowarded it to my host system. I'm trying logging in as root, but it just loops me back to the login screen and i'm failing to add a new user in case root is the issue. I haven't used illumos before so i'm not quite familiar on how to go about it. Does anyone have any points?

SmartOS is more a hypervisor than a users-in-the-global-zone.

We use a ramdisk root, so any /etc/* changes just vanish on the next reboot.

(Root's password has for /etc/shadow is actually elsewhere.)

You should create VMs using the SmartOS UI logging in as root (which may make it risky if you're port-forwarding).

Then approach each VM as something you can add/remove/etc. users.

If you want a more traditional experience in SmartOS, bless a zone as the one users use and administrate in-zone.

"zone" ==> "Joyent" brand, aka the native zone (not a VM per se).

Does that make any sense?

Thanks for responding 😄 i understand that it's a hypervisor, and i intend to use it as such, but i just pulled the image and started in qemu to play around with it before pulling out some baremetal. Since i'm just playing around i don't care about security or anything else really. I'm just wondering how i log in to the webui that comes with it

Basically what i did is install the system, install the web ui as described on this page docs.smartos.org/web-interface, open it in my browser and i tried to login with root, but i get dropped back onto login page immidiatly and i'm unable to find any good documentation on the topic