Asterisk via putty

[shane2018]

Hi

Please someone help me. We have been using vicidial for a while and we were using putty to maintain the asterisk. We have misplaced our login details for putty. How do we retrieve it or change the password?

[blackbird2306]

Try this:
1. Press 'e' at the boot menu for edit mode
2. Find the line starting with "linux" and append (with one space) " init=/bin/sh" at the end
3. Press F10 for reboot
4. Now you are in a linux environment without password request and you should be able to change the password with typing: passwd

Another way is to change the password with booting from a live CD. There are many descriptions on the internet (e.g. https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3003803)

[williamconley]

Hi

Please someone help me. We have been using vicidial for a while and we were using putty to maintain the asterisk. We have misplaced our login details for putty. How do we retrieve it or change the password?

Your installation method and version are essential to answer this question. Note that "putty" is a remote console access tool. The same password will be used at the local keyboard/monitor when directly accessing the server.

While there are hacking methods that can be used to access a vicidial server if you have Web GUI access, the only guaranteed method to crack the root password is directly at the console with physical access to the server.