WARNING: This documentation is out of date. All up to date documentation is now in the JumpBox Wiki All relevant documentation has been ported to the wiki and is updated there. These FAQs are here strictly for historical reasons.

Out of the box all JumpBox applications ship with the root account and SSH disabled. However, it is possible to run shell commands with root privileges using the following process.

1. Register the JumpBox
2. Enable shell logins using the account tool in the JumpBox Admin UI
3. Log into the JumpBox using the account 'admin' and the password you gave during setup.
4. Use the sudo command to execute commands as root. Sudo will ask you for a password where you should enter the password for the admin account. You can run any command you want this way.

Note: There isn't any need to do this, but if you really, really want to use the root account directly you can set a password for it by using sudo.

sudo passwd root

To delete a file owned by root

sudo rm /tmp/file

To become the root user for a while you can run this:

sudo -i

When done performing actions as the root user you log out with CTRL+D.

NOTE: Be careful while doing things as the root user. You could break your JumpBox and lose anything you have stored on it.