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Anyway, I tried a few functions as root using
sudo {command}
When prompted for the password I researched and found it is supposed to be rootme.
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First, "sudo" does not ask for root password, it asks for user password. Second, user is not in sudoers so you cannot get root permission that easy.
Do what the General says or install openssh if you want to be able to "ssh root@n810" from a desktop.
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Anyway, I tried a few functions as root using
sudo {command}
When prompted for the password I researched and found it is supposed to be rootme. No go at all. And mind that this is a brand new device purchased directly from Amazon two days ago.
So my question is...has Nokia changed the default password? I cannot imagine they have but I simply do not kow what is wrong.
And I am aware the OS is, shudder, case sensitive. Plus as far as I know I never did anything to change the passoword. I didn't have the default anyway.
If they have not changed it, would reflashing potentially address the issue? I mean, I don't have much installed and it might be easier than sleuthing out the issue.
But when I look a directory listing of /etc directory I see the password file WAS changed Feb 12, yesterday @ 9:02 but not sure if that was AM or PM. the time doesn't matter as I might not have had it set properly anyway. But the day concerns me that I might have accidently changed it thinking I was baing asked to enter THE password not enter A password.
I figured I could just edit the file, deleting the encrypted password for root. But now I cannot edit and and save changes. Heck i cannot even make a backup of the file I assume that is because as "user" I do not have modify rights to that directory. Yes? No? But I was able to make a backup to /home/user/bak/passwd.bak so I do now had a backup.
OK, now how do I modify that file? Again will reflashing or reinstalling OS2008 be easier?