[arm-allstar] Can't login node / password changed issues

[David McGough]

Ken,

That's not a stock HamVoIP asterisk.conf file!  I don't know where it came 
from.

I just looked at the HamVoIP hamvoip-asterisk-support-scripts package, 
which contains the asterisk.conf file, and the contents are:

[packager at debian-221 asterisk]# cat asterisk.conf 
[options]
nocolor=yes


73, David KB4FXC


On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 cqdogxray at gmail.com wrote:

> I am puzzled then
> 
> Mine starts with this info:
> 
> [directories]
> astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
> ;astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
> astmoddir => /usr/local/hamvoip-asterisk-2020-06-01/lib/asterisk/modules
> astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
> astdatadir => /var/lib/asterisk
> astagidir => /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
> astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
> astrundir => /var/run
> astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk
> 
> did you put in the 2020 date 4 years ago??
> That's the part that got me in trouble.
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> 
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:43 PM
> To: "Ken via ARM-allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Cc: cqdogxray at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Can't login node / password changed issues
> 
> 
> 
> Ken,
> 
> The "stock" /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf file found on HamVoIP hasn't changed
> in years. The last time it changed was about 08/2016.
> 
> 
> 73, David KB4FXC
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, "Ken via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> 
> > Just a follow-up on this one:  Having retrieved the SD card and replacing
> > the root password per instructions on the web site, what we found was that
> > the node had basically lost its ability to recognized ANY root login.
> The
> > SD card  had some errors on it that (I am told) are typical when a
> Raspberry
> > Pi is powered down while running  (and of course with no root log in we
> had
> > to do that).  During its lifetime prior to this problem the node had never
> > seen a power outage.
> > 
> > So it's a bit of a mystery.
> > 
> > One thing I learned was that - in the configuration files - the
> > "asterisk.conf" file changes from release to release.  Do not copy an old
> > one into a new install. This is not a user configuration, from the stand
> > point of a node operator.
> > 
> > 73
> > Ken
> > 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:51:07 -0400
> > From: "Ken" <ke2n at cs.com>
> > To: <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> > Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Login password changed automatically
> > Message-ID: <03da01d687cd$40fe6e70$c2fb4b50$@cs.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
> > 
> > It looks like our HamVOIP root password for SSH has changed itself in the
> > last couple of days.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Has anyone figured out how this happens?  We are using a nonstandard port
> > for SSH.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Ken  - KE2N
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:06:02 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net>
> > To: Ken <ke2n at cs.com>
> > Cc: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Login password changed automatically
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<Pine.LNX.4.44.2009102002190.30460-100000 at goliath.inttek.net>
> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> > 
> > 
> > Ken,
> > 
> > There is no way the password should change unexpectedly. Follow up with me
> > off-list, if you would like for me to take a look at the node.
> > 
> > 73, David KB4FXC
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Ken wrote:
> > 
> > > It looks like our HamVOIP root password for SSH has changed itself in 
> > > the last couple of days.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Has anyone figured out how this happens?  We are using a nonstandard 
> > > port for SSH.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Ken  - KE2N
> > > 
> 
> 
>