Root Password

[david.bowerman (Dave Bowerman)]

Hi

There are lots of references in here to the root password of emlid devices being emlidreach

I have a pair of Reach RS+s and root/emlidreach does not work on them. Has it changed?

Thanks.

[tatiana.andreeva]

Hi Dave,

You can use only the “reach” user. Root access is not provided.

You can check my explanation on why we closed it in this thread:

Permanent monitoring system: how to schedule solutions sync with a remote server

Hi @geoguichet, We can’t provide root access, I’m afraid. I’ll try to explain this in more detail. Once you change anything in Reach software, it’s becoming difficult to predict how Reach and ReachView will perform. In this case, we can’t see the whole picture on what’s going on with Reach device and we can’t predict how the things you’re running on Reach may affect its operation. Every time we add new features or fixes, we thoroughly test the code for a long time to make sure it’s stable and…