Tips for others reading the above instructions: 1. For step 2, it's important you execute 'ssh -p 2222 root@localhost' AFTER ssh'g into your SANDBOX as root. In other words, locahost is relative to your sandbox. I saw similar advice on other posts but the excerpt above made it obvious. Thank you @jwhitmore for so much detail! 2. The system prompts you for the default password ('hadoop') twice, first when you ssh over port 2222 to local host ('root@localhost's password' in excerpt above) and again after the admonition to change your password ('(current) UNIX password:). Only then do you enter your NEW password. That confused me the first time round. ... View more