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Logging in as root

I have factory reset one of my 425a appliances to v7.011 and changed the root password for shell access. When I try and login using putty, I get an access denied but I can login using the loginuser and password.. I have received instructions on how to deactivate the hardware accelerator and was trying to achieve this via the shell

Any ideas please?

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0 ReD-MaN over 17 years ago

You have to login as the loginuser account, and then issue the su - command to switch to root.
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0 Fozwiz over 17 years ago in reply to ReD-MaN

Thankyou

I will try this next week when I am back in the office
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0 BrucekConvergent over 17 years ago in reply to Fozwiz

Yep, login as Loginuser, then enter su , then enter the root password.
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0 Gert Hansen over 17 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Hi there,

this has been added as 90% of the automated ssh brute-force login tools only the user root. Therefore we disabled direct root login.

Regards
Gert
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