On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Christian Fischer <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

Thank you - I finally found it! Sorry for the trouble.
--
W. Stacy Lockwood III
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