root access on omv7 raspberry pi 5

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    Hello, I just set up a small NAS with a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Radxa Penta SATA card (4XSSD in RAID5).

    It works pretty well.

    However, I have a problem: I cannot transfer files or browse files with WinSCP. (I do not have root privileges (0)).

    My account is a user (1000).


    This is very annoying because, for example, I need to create a Branding folder in the FileBrowser installation directory and add my logo.svg file to it.


    I usually do this with WinSCP.

    Do you know of a solution?

    make the connection as the pi root user, not as a user created in omv.

    Asrock B450M, AMD 5600G, 64GB RAM, 6 x 4TB RAID 5 array, 2 x 10TB RAID 1 array, 100GB SSD for OS, 1TB SSD for docker and VMs, 1TB external SSD for fsarchiver OS and docker data daily backups

    I don't run on a pi as you see from my signature, so can't provide a strict tutorial, but every linux based install has to have some kind of root user.


    ubuntu for example does not expose the root user by not setting a password for the user, but this can be overcome by using the sudo rights of another user to set a root user password with sudo passwd root


    This may work on a pi as well, but I can't confirm it since I don't run one. Another pi user may be able to confirm a process for you.

    Asrock B450M, AMD 5600G, 64GB RAM, 6 x 4TB RAID 5 array, 2 x 10TB RAID 1 array, 100GB SSD for OS, 1TB SSD for docker and VMs, 1TB external SSD for fsarchiver OS and docker data daily backups

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    The pi user has sudo privileges. You could also create a new user and put that user in the sudo group in the OMV web interface. Either way, you just need to run the passwd command that bernh mentions.

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    Well, since I'm terrible at coding and without a graphical interface I'm lost, I tried ChatGPT to generate SSH command lines for creating folders, modifying configuration files, etc.

    And it worked! I'm blown away, I didn't believe it would.

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