s_dchakr (Customer) asked a question.
How do i switch user to root? I'm trying to install splunk forwarder into the RSA VMWare Virtual appliance
I want to install splunkforwarder in the VM, however after installing the software, i have been facing permission issues due to installing it as a non-root user. I wanted to see if switching to root fixes this, but I do not have the root password. I wanted to see if I am missing any documentation that provides root credentials to the RSA VM. please advise
For starters. We don't recommend installing any software onto the AM server. Secondly the root account is disabled. So there is no documentation that provides the root credentials.
login with the rsaadmin and switch to the root account using this command
sudo su - rsaadmin
enter the rsaadmin password at the prompt
once conencted as rsaadmin, you just need to type:
sudo su -
then type the same password as rsaadmin