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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