I am just getting started with start9 on a dream-quest mini comp. I got start9 installed and running, but when I am ssh’d in via cli, it looks like the user start9’s passwd is not the same as the passwd set during setup for logging into the webgui. I also can’t seem to find anything online providing the user start9 passwd. Is that by design or was I just not thorough enough searching online?
I would like to poke around but need sudo access. Also it would give me more peace of mind to change the default user’s passwd. Thks.
Yeah, I have a feeling there is no sudo access by design. I would like to install some linux apps like pass-password manager, and it looks like even apt is locked down. If this is the case, I guess the logic is for the devs/support to keep a tight control on how peeps use their node for easier support when things aren’t going smoothly. If so, that makes sense, but for me I need to be able to run a node with more control over my linux box. Maybe myNode?
There is no password access via SSH in StartOS v0.3.5.1.
Instead you should be following the guides here:
StartOS is not for installing linux packages or any software that isn’t specifically packaged for StartOS. If you’d like to have a vanilla linux server rather than StartOS, perhaps just use Debian.
Ok, yeah, that’s what I finally concluded: no sudo/root at the cli. For me, I see that as an unnecessarily forced trust instead of verify situation, being forced to assume the root account is secure instead of knowing by securing it myself. But I get it, it likely makes more sense for you to keep things locked and controlled to provide easier support.
Thnks, but your suggestion to run debian is moot since I’m not installing start9 looking for a daily driver, because archL is already my daily driver. Instead I’m looking for a hasslefree node, electrum server/mempool access to replace the raspibolt i have been running but which is starting to req too much intervention.
That’s exactly what StartOS goal is, plus more! It’s highly opinionated, and resilient, with a GUI that provides access to all of it’s supported functions, in order to be exactly that. It’s not “locked down.” StartOS is a FOSS project. Anyone can download the source code, modify it, or fork the project to do whatever they want. You can find many people here in the DIY forum hacking StartOS in all sorts of ways we don’t support, to make it do things outside of it’s original intent. But the truth is, for many of those use cases, Debian or RedHat might be easier, because they are more standardized, and won’t attempt to fix itself back to it’s original intent like StartOS will.
This is incorrect. You can use sudo, but you may receive informative warnings to remind you that this is not a standard linux distro, and the results may not be what you expect. You can grab full root with sudo -i, and hack away until your heart is content, as long as you are willing to accept the responsibility of doing so. If things don’t work right, our only advice will be to reinstall StartOS, and use it the way it was intended, or switch to a tool more appropriate for your use-case.