[Xen-users] special passwords for xenserver direct console, could it be?

["stabeek" <stabeek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

Would appreciate any comments on the following scenario. Thanks in advance. 

I'm a newcomer to xen and have received a machine with several VMs running 
on it. I also have the root passwords to the VMs at keast one of which I can 
log into as root via ssh. 

I can also connect a keyboard and screen directly to the machine and I get a 
XenServer Management console coming up in ncurses style. 

However the root password I use for ssh is rejected by this Mgmt console 
when I select and request login into the machine I just ssh'd into. 

The possibility of the Xenserver Mgmt console needing a different typoe of 
root password is not impossible (i'm new to xen, so I tend to expect and 
believe anything), but at the same time it not hugely conventional. Having 
two types of "root passwords" ... well ... I suppose one could get used to 
it, but it will cause not a little confusion. 

I decided that it can't be, so I checked and re-checked my typing and the 
keyboard to make sure it enters what I typed. 

One thing this Mgmt console can't do is allow non-root access. You overwrite 
the UID part (it allows you to overwrite "root") and you ente a valid 
username for the VM in question, and it says "only root can log in here" or 
something to that effect. 

Grateful for any comments. Many thanks.

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