VI text editor

I am having trouble setting up my new piratebox. Call me a noob, but I got it all set up and I do the "ssh root@192.168.1.1" command and after that it says "Activate the Kareha Image and Discussion Board by using the vi text editor (vi cheat sheet) to change the admin username and password "

Wut? So I activate it, and get completely lost from there. help pleas.

I Had a lot of trouble figuring this out myself but heres what got it working for me

Once in the SSH Session go ahead and run the following command:
vi /opt/piratebox/www/board/config.pl

This opens the config.pl using the vi text editor. From here you navigate around using the following keys:

h Move left
j Move down
k Move up
l Move right

You want to move the cursor over to where it says ADMIN_PASS and delete the word ADMIN_PASS by typing in dw then hitting enter (d = activates the delete function, w="Word" so basically you are activating, delete + word)

Once thats done, you are now in input mode, so go ahead and type whatever you want the admin password to be within the ' ' brackets that should be left over.

Once you have completed typing in the password, hit escape twice on the keyboard, this should put you back into "View" mode.

now go down to any other changes you want to make (you also want to modify the SECRET string)

once all changes have been made, again hit escape twice to get you into "View" mode and then type :x
which will save all changes and exit out of the vi editor.

to make sure you have done all of this correctly and saved properly exit out and get back into the SSH Session and once again type in:

vi /opt/piratebox/www/board/config.pl

if you see that your changes are in place you should be good to go to the next step!

Hope this helps, took me a while before i could figure all of this out...

I must have done something wrong. This is all that shows up. Do you know why? Thanks for that though, once I fix this that will be very helpful. Terminal view (using OsX) after command

Well that definately looks like the vi editor...

sorry, i didnt realize you had a mac. I have been running this via Putty on Windows. I dont know how much further i can help...

Maybe try via a windows box?

that looks more like the file is not available!!

can you check it via

ls -l /opt/piratebox/share
ls -l /opt/piratebox/share/board

Matthias

All it says it "no such file or directory"

Did I mess up during the initial installation?

It seems you installation did not work, yes.

can you please post the output of

ls -l /mnt 
ls -l /mnt/usb
ls -l /mnt/usb/install
dmesg | grep sda

Thanks

I'm not sure if I'm putting it in correctly, but all that I am getting is still "No such file or directory"

you won't get this message on dmesg| tail ...
Please post the output as you get it

Sorry I'm really bad at this. Do I just start up the piratebox and copy and paste that into the terminal?

Yes, simply copy e.g.

dmesg | tail

and other codes to the terminal and post us the output.

Sorry I'm probably doing this wrong. All I get it this



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/26/2014 06:44PM by bobisdaman.

ok,
please post the output of

cat /etc/pbx_custom_image
cat /etc/openwrt_release

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I got this

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/pbx_custom_image
cat: can't open '/etc/pbx_custom_image': No such file or directory
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/openwrt_release
DISTRIB_ID="OpenWrt"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="Bleeding Edge"
DISTRIB_REVISION="r41147"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="barrier_breaker"
DISTRIB_TARGET="ar71xx/generic"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r41147"
DISTRIB_TAINTS=""
root@OpenWrt:~#

Hi,
you are using an unsupported trunk image and not one of our auto-install images.
At least our custom images has the USB driver installed.

That explains everything.

Which device do you have?

Matthias

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Device as in router? Im using the TP-Link WR703N with a Kingston 16gb flashdrive

Hi,
then I recommend you to reflash the device with our auto install image. Follow the upgrade instruction from this page [www.piratebox.cc]

Matthias

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I've been following those instructions but when I try to go to the URL of my router it can't connect. Any ideas?

Edit: I tried the ssh root thing because I can't connect to it on the internet and got this... I went to the folder and only saw a ton of random numbers. What do I do now?
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
91:57:e6:f4:4a:0d:0f:ae:f9:90:27gb:7g:8g:g7:cg. [Changed a little for security purposes]
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/[myname]/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending RSA key in /Users/[myname]/.ssh/known_hosts:1
RSA host key for 192.168.1.1 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
[myname]-MacBook:~ [myname]$



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2014 02:09AM by bobisdaman.

Hi,
the issue you posted is because the Box creates a new SSH key evertime you flash the box. This is expected, yes.

To fix that: [askubuntu.com]
or simply remove ~/.ssh/know_hosts on your computer (if you use ssh more frequently, edit the file and remove the particular line).

Matthias

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It's funny, vi kinda of grown on me, I actually like it now weird right? Hated it at first!