[asterisk-gui] no root user

James Lyons james at digium.com
Wed Mar 26 10:29:41 CDT 2008


Stephen Coles wrote:
> Installed 1.0.1 from iso and can't login as root on the pbx (Alt-F2)-
> trying to log in with 'root' and the password i issued during setup
> (root and admin are the same passwords in beta6 so going on that idea)
> and i get invalid password
>
> But i can login as 'admin' and then issue
> Sudo su
> And it gives me root access
>
> i have just issued the passwd command and set the root password i can
> now login as root
>
>
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The password for root has been locked since we started creating the 
admin user. You are supposed to use 'sudo su -' to get access to root. 
So what you are seeing is expected ;)



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