So, I am installing this on my ESXI 6.5 box. I am utilizing Ubuntu 20.04 as the medium. I am also rather new to this so I am following the instructions at:
I am following the instructions and I am at this point:
su - librenms
./scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev
exit
I have looked and don’t see what the password is. I have used my root and user passwords to no avail and using librenms as a password also yields no positive results.
i think you made a mistake
su - librenms, when translated to “normal language” is:
i am simple user XXXX and i want to become user “librenms”
to achieve this, i need “su” command (switch user)
and normaly, “su” will ask you for password
No need to set a password for the librenms user (and you probably shouldn’t, as with any other user account created specifically to run a service rather than intended for interactive logins) you just need to run su as root, as root always has the ability to change to a user account even one without a password set.
So you should have been doing sudo su - librenms
Then enter your root password as you would with any other use of sudo. Sudo elevates you to root, so the su command gets run as root, that allows you to change to that user even though that user does not have a password enabled.