[Leaplist] IPCop Password

[David Billsbrough]

Hank Lambert wrote:

> Thanks for the help.  I went into single user mode, and was able to
> reset the root password.  I then typed setup, and it gave me a
> command not found.  I also tried passwd admin, but it gave me a
> unknown user error code.  I rebooted the machine, remoted in via
> Firefox, and went to system > SSH access, and the Authentication
> Required dialog box appeared.  I type in root and the new password,
> and it doesn't take it.  The dialog box says "Enter username and
> password for "Restricted" at https://192.168.16.5:445.  Being new at
> this, but inquisitive none-the-less, I rebooted IPCop, went into
> single user mode, and tried to set the password for Restricted. 
> Obviously, it was a no go.

> It might be easier to just reinstall, but I always prefer to try and
> fix the problem rather than taking the Microsoft way of just
> reinstalling.  That's how I learn.

> Also, is Single User mode an IPCop mode, or a Linux mode?

Hank,

If you have setup the root password on the IPCOP box then you can secure
shell from your user machine to the ipcop firewall machine:

 ssh root at ipcop (or what ever you gave as a hostname on the ipcop machine)

 if your user machine is Windows then you need an app like "putty".

or log in the ipcop machine locally (not in single user mode)

you should when run 'setup' while logged in as root at command line mode
and the setup program is a ncurses/dialog interface.  The last two options
from the menu are to setup passwords for admin and backup accounts.

regards,

David