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TrixBox Made Easy

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TrixBox Made Easy

Overview of this book

TrixBox is a telephone system based on the popular open source Asterisk PBX (Private Branch eXchange) Software. TrixBox allows an individual or organization to setup a telephone system with traditional telephone networks as well as Internet based telephony or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). SugarCRM can be integrated with Asterisk, and is bundled with Trixbox offering real power and flexibility. The book begins by introducing telephony concepts before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature packed PBX. This book is rich with practical examples and tools. It provides examples of well laid out telephone systems with accompanying spreadsheets to aid the reader in building stable telephony infrastructure.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to VoIP
6
TrixBox Configuration
Commonly Used VoIP Terms

Changing Default Passwords


The main login and password for our system is the root account. If someone gains access to the root account, they have full and complete access to our entire system. This is the first thing we should change before deploying our system. Either logged in from the console or via SSH, we need to use the passwd command to change the root password.

[root@asterisk1 ~]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Secondly, we need to change the passwords for the maint and wwwadmin accounts. TrixBox includes scripts to help us with this. To change the password we use to log into FreePBX, we will use the following command:

passwd-maint

We will see the following appear:

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Set password for AMP web GUI and maint GUI
User: maint
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New password:
Re-type new password:
Updating password for user maint...