On 12.04.2017 19:42, W Stacy Lockwood wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Christian Fischer > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > via the menu: > Advanced -> Support > its possible to enable a Superuser and to get to the shell. Switch to > the "root" user by just entering "su" in the admin terminal. > > > This does not work. su rightly still asks for the root password which I > do not have, and the admin user is not in sudoers. As such, I can't fix > things. For example, despite specifying nameservers I want used in the > admin program, it's still listing one that isn't what I want, and it's > specifying that one first. No root, no sudo, no fixing it.
There is no sudo on this box. Click your way through the mentioned menu, enable the superuser and configure the password for it (this is the root password!!). Then you can use su with that configured password to get root. Regards -- Christian Fischer | PGP Key: 0x54F3CE5B76C597AD Greenbone Networks GmbH | http://greenbone.net Neumarkt 12, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
