Managing passwords

There is only one interactively usable system account: root. Other accounts are only valid for the web interface. If root’s password is missing (default), you can’t login into the system (console/ssh/webinterface), so the usual first step is to change the password via boot parameter, adding the variable ROOTPW=my_new_password to the kernel command line.

The passwords are managed by chpwdfile and are saved into /mnt/ramdisk/pwd. Used hashing method is MD5. DES might work for the console/ssh, but not for the webinterface. If you run chpwdfile without any options, it will list its complete syntax.

chpwdfile -f /mnt/ramdisk/pwd -t m -a username

chpwdfile -f /mnt/ramdisk/pwd -t m -m username