Dropbear user login

dongliu · October 8, 2018, 2:28am

Hi all:
I'm login openwrt for dropbear . I can't login for admin user, but can login for root user.

login as: admin
admin@192.168.1.1's password:
Access denied
why?

thanks

mbo2o · October 8, 2018, 2:33am

only root user exists unless you have made modifications to add other users

dongliu · October 8, 2018, 2:37am

Hi mbo2o:
thanks, My system have root and admin user.How can I modify admin user ?

mbo2o · October 8, 2018, 2:44am

reset password for admin would be my first step

dongliu · October 8, 2018, 2:56am

Hi mbo2o:
Why? I have modified it.
thanks.

JW0914 · October 8, 2018, 12:34pm

OpenWrt is a single user OS, so unless you're deploying an extremely locked down sudoers config (requires sudo package), utilizing an account other than root is pointless.

jow · October 8, 2018, 2:00pm

Possible problems are:

missing /home/admin
lacking permissions (chown admin /home/admin; chmod o+rwX /home/admin) on /home/admin
bad shell for admin in /etc/passwd