I am using the default wifi password which use to always be the root under previous vera’s. However, it says permission denied. Who do I find the root password for my VeraPlus?
You can also see it here if you log in: Login, click on the “advanced” link and then “Click to show password”
Did you click “Secure my Vera” and block all(including SSH) local access to the device?
I’ve got the same issue, I have checked what the password is (same as the Wi-Fi password), and have made sure Secure my Vera off, but I still get access denied.
The only way I can SSH is to use the Remote Support code, when I need it.
Once in under the support account, which should have admin rights, type below command
passwd root -u
To unlock the account in case it’s locked, and then type in
passwd root
and you should be prompted to enter a password for root. I would suggest to use the one on the bottom of your VeraPlus.
If that fails
passwd root -d
sets the password to a blank one. Try to SSH as root with that blank password and as root type passwd to change it.
[quote=“BOFH, post:5, topic:191340”]Once in under the support account, which should have admin rights, type below command
passwd root -u
To unlock the account in case it’s locked, and then type in
passwd root
and you should be prompted to enter a password for root. I would suggest to use the one on the bottom of your VeraPlus.
If that fails
passwd root -d
sets the password to a blank one. Try to SSH as root with that blank password and as root type passwd to change it.[/quote]
That worked, thank you BOFH
What worked for me was to use the ‘remote’ name and the support/temp password to gain acecess to the unit, and then I ran the following command.
nvram show | grep pass
That returns the Wi-Fi password, which I could then use that with the ‘root’ user.
The same thing recently happened to me. I called support and they said SSH ability was somehow disabled on my Vera 3. They were able to re-enable SSH and now everything works…