[jeremy rutman]

I pulled the openfoam docker, which is built on centos which i'm not familiar with (I am an ubuntu user) . 'sudo' isn't recognized nor are my usual texteditors (nano, emacs) , nor can i install with yum without being root....so unless someone has some way out I guess I will just install on the metal and skip the docker which otherwise seems like a nice idea.

[rcastilla]

It seems that you can access to root with the same password as the root acount in your local linux system.

It worked for me.

Regards

Robert

[shangyan]

Originally Posted by jeremy rutman

I pulled the openfoam docker, which is built on centos which i'm not familiar with (I am an ubuntu user) . 'sudo' isn't recognized nor are my usual texteditors (nano, emacs) , nor can i install with yum without being root....so unless someone has some way out I guess I will just install on the metal and skip the docker which otherwise seems like a nice idea.

Hi,jeremy rutman
start your system in virtual box.run "passwd".It will require a new password, set one.Start your Docker and openfoam.Type su and input the password you set.

[MakisH]

I tried OpenFOAM v1706 on Ubuntu 16.04, using the Docker-installation method, which is based on the installOpenFOAM and a startOpenFOAM scripts.

A workaround I found to login as root inside was to edit the startOpenFOAM script and modify:

docker exec -it of_v1706 /bin/bash -rcfile /opt/OpenFOAM/setImage_v1706.sh

to this (i.e. add the "-u 0"):

docker exec -u 0 -it of_v1706 /bin/bash -rcfile /opt/OpenFOAM/setImage_v1706.sh

I then ran the startOpenFOAM script as my normal user and I was logged in as root.