Veralite Password for ssh

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How or where can I get the password of my Veralite when I do ssh? I don’t have any backup file that I can download or use.
Thanks
Daniel

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On my Vera2 it’s on the bottom of the box.

3

It looks that Veralite does not have it. I only see the serial number and MAC number on the back of the box.

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[quote=“lancer, post:1, topic:170810”]How or where can I get the password of my Veralite when I do ssh? I don’t have any backup file that I can download or use.
Thanks
Daniel[/quote]

Hi lancer,
this solution for vera light was provided by quinten in a different post and it works for me… Here is his post:

“If you go to Setup → Backup, you can download a (latest) backup stored on MCV’s servers. If you extract the archive and navigate to the etc directory, you’ll find a file called cmh.conf which is a text file. In it you’ll find a string like ‘Password=bladiebla’. That password is your root password.”

Then just ssh root@<vera’s ip> and enter the password…

Flo

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Flo, I red that post. The problem is that my vera is stuck and I can’t communicate to it. I can’t access Setup menu with the Webrowser…So how do it download the info from MCV?

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Hmmm…
Im sure you could give MCV a call. They should have the backups also and would be able to sent you that file.

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You might check to see if there is a removable label on the back … I think I read that the password was covered up … but that may have been for OLD units and not the NEW units.

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There is no password label for the Vera lite.

  • Garrett
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The password file in the backup has what appears to be 3 users root,nobody and daemon. What part of the string after root is the actual pwd? The following is a modified example of what I see.
root:fSexr2EI:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash

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[quote=“garretn, post:9, topic:170810”]The password file in the backup has what appears to be 3 users root,nobody and daemon. What part of the string after root is the actual pwd? The following is a modified example of what I see.
root:fSexr2EI:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash[/quote]

Please read this post:

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,9797.msg65629.html#msg65629

The file you need to be looking for is under /etc/cmh/cmh.conf. In there is a line called “Password=xxxxxxxxxxx”. Where xxxxxxxxxxx is your password.

  • Garrett
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Thank you… It helps if I am looking at the correct file… ;D

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Anytime.

  • Garrett
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[quote=“garrettwp, post:10, topic:170810”][quote=“garretn, post:9, topic:170810”]The password file in the backup has what appears to be 3 users root,nobody and daemon. What part of the string after root is the actual pwd? The following is a modified example of what I see.
root:fSexr2EI:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash[/quote]

Please read this post:

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,9797.msg65629.html#msg65629

The file you need to be looking for is under /etc/cmh/cmh.conf. In there is a line called “Password=xxxxxxxxxxx”. Where xxxxxxxxxxx is your password.

  • Garrett[/quote]

what happens when neither the password on the box and the password in the most recent backup file work? They are both the same but access is still denied (vera3)