PBX in a Flash for Newbies

Users and Passwords

There are many Users and Passwords required to run PBX in a Flash. There are unique administrators for accessing each component that makes up the PBX in a Flash distribution. Here's the steps that you absolutely need to do immediately after installing PBX in a Flash:

1. Change the Linux root user password

   The root user is the administrator for the Linux operating system and also has complete control of the Asterisk CLI. The password is set during the installation stage. If you want to change the root password, at the Linux prompt use the passwd command (not a typo!).

   root@pbx:~ $ passwd

   It will prompt you to type the new password twice. Write down the new password!

2. Synchronize the Passwords

   At the Linux prompt, you can run the "passwd-master" command this will synchronize all the administrators including root to one main password.

   root@pbx:~ $ passwd-master

   It will prompt you if you want to change passwords for the different administrators, answer yes for now. It will make your life so much easier at the start to have one common password. Here's the steps that occur when you run the passwd-master script. Later, you can change the individual passwords as needed:

• FreePBX

  Here's information on how to logon to FreePBX.

  • admin user

    Administrator of FreePBX. Can do anything. The default user/password is admin/admin. You initial set the admin user's password using the following command at the Linux prompt:

    root@pbx:~ $ /usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin admin foo

    Where admin is the user and foo is the new password. Normally, the admin account is disabled if you use "passwd-master" and replaced by the user "maint".

  • wwwadmin user

    The "wwwadmin" is supposedly for users needing FOP and MeetMe access but appears to be able to do everything on my server that the user "maint" does.

    Set password at Linux prompt using

    root@pbx:~ $ passwd-amp

  • maint user

    The user maint is able to go everywhere. This is the user that you should use after setting passwd-master. You set the password at Linux prompt using:

    root@pbx:~ $ passwd-maint

  • meetme user

    The meetme user is for users needing only MeetMe access. You set the password at the Linux prompt using

    root@pbx:~ $ passwd-meetme

  • Webmin

    This is the administrator for the Webmin web-based client for configuring the Non Asterisk Stuff (couldn't find a better term - so stuff it is!). Here's information on how to logon to Webmin. It uses the same user and password as the Linux root user:

    User: root
    Password: what you set originally during installation

  • Asterisk

    There is one user associated with the Asterisk application:

    • User: admin with a default password of amp110

    You can manually change the username and password by modifying the following line in /etc/amportal.conf file

    • AMPMGRUSER=admin - modifies the username for the Asterisk manager
    • AMPMGRPASS=amp110 - modifies the password for the Asterisk manager

    and then at the Linux prompt, run:

    root@pbx:~ $ /usr/src/AMP/apply_conf

  • mySQL

    There are two users associated with the mySQL database:

    • User: asteriskuser with a default password of amp109
    • User: admin with a default password of amp110

    You can manually change the username and password by modifying the following line in /etc/amportal.conf file

    • AMPDBUSER=asteriskuser - modifies the username for the database user
    • AMPDBPASS=amp109 - modifies the password for the database user

    and then at the Linux prompt, run:

    root@pbx:~ $ /usr/src/AMP/apply_conf

  • FreePBX Operator Panel (FOP)

    The secret code for performing transfers and hangups in the Flash Operator Panel is passw0rd (zero not the letter O)

    You can manually change this password by modifying the line FOPPASSWORD=passw0rd in the /etc/amportal.conf file and then at the Linux prompt, run:

    root@pbx:~ $ /usr/src/AMP/apply_conf

  • Voicemail and Recordings

    If you want to access your voicemail through the web client FreePBX, your extension must have voicemail enabled and a password entered.Your username is your extension ID (ex. 1001) and your initial password is the voicemail password configured in the extension (not the secret password!)