OpenVZ, cannot change password

Question

I'm trying to change password of VPS throught this command:

vzctl set 180 --userpasswd root:test123 --save

and it giving me this error: No changes in CT configuration, not saving

Using OpenVZ

Answer 1

Don't use --save.

vzctl set 180 --userpasswd root:test123 should be OK.

To learn more, see Setting_root_Password_for_Container