Might you be putting a '$' in the password somewhere? I just ran into this issue... if you use a '$' in the root password, the root password is set to everything up to but not including the '$'.
Mike On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Joe Micciche <jmicc...@redhat.com> wrote: > rpm install from the Fedora repo originally noted. > > SELinux is disabled. > > I am referring to the real root user on the server, not the superadmin > user in sipX. This occurs after running sipxecs-setup as root. > > I am going to do another install today via CentOS or RHEL repo and will > report what happens. > > joe > > On 08/22/2010 09:52 AM, Martin Steinmann wrote: > >> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] root password in sipXecs V4.2.1 Fedora > >> install > >> > >> When you install from rpm the setup script is the "same" one used from > >> iso. > > > > That is not correct. There are two scripts: sipxecs-setup and > > sipxecs-setup-system, both are Python scripts. The CD installer runs > both, > > after an RPM install you have to run sipxecs-setup manually, but not the > > other one > > --martin > > > > > >> > >> Assuming you installed RPM from "root", the script should be able to > >> change > >> the passwd. It might be that the steps to do so are different in FC12? > >> > >> In either case, should the script detect OS from the "releases" file > >> and > >> handle changing the root passwd differently? > >> > >> > >> ============================ > >> Tony Graziano, Manager > >> Telephone: 434.984.8430 > >> Fax: 434.984.8431 > >> > >> Email: tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net > >> > >> LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: > >> Telephone: 434.984.8426 > >> Fax: 434.984.8427 > >> > >> Helpdesk Contract Customers: > >> http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org > >> <sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org> > >> To: jmicc...@redhat.com <jmicc...@redhat.com> > >> Cc: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org <sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org> > >> Sent: Sun Aug 22 09:27:04 2010 > >> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] root password in sipXecs V4.2.1 Fedora > >> install > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Joe Micciche <jmicc...@redhat.com> > >> wrote: > >>> After each install, I ran sipxecs-setup since I'd already configured > >> all > >>> of the OS networking. > >>> In each case, the root password has been changed, > >>> and it is *not* the password that is commonly documented. sipXecs > >> starts > >>> up fine. > >> > >> When you install from RPMs, sipXecs has no involvement with the root > >> password of the OS. Are you referring to the "superadmin" user of the > >> sipXecs web interface? Where is the documentation you refer to > >> regarding the "commonly documented" password? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sipx-users mailing list > >> sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > >> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sipx-users mailing list > >> sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > >> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > > > > -- > ================================================================== > Joe Micciche jmicc...@redhat.com > Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com > Senior Communications Engineer X(81) 44554 > +1.919.754.4554 > ================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > -- There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't. mpic...@gmail.com blog: http://www.sipxecs.info call: sip:mpic...@sipxecs.info <sip%3ampic...@sipxecs.info>
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