Sorry if this is the wrong place, but this version of linux is not covered and it is a little different.

I have bought a NAS box: Freecom FSG-3. It has a linux file system that I can get to through PuTTY via SSH. The file system looks and behaves as one might expect a linux box to...

I want to play; improve things like their screwed up web pages etc. However Freecom are playing Big Brother on me and won't give me the root password. (no supprise there). I did offer to let them connect and change it to something and give the new one to me.

Anyway, from PuTTY I have done a "uname -a" to find the kernel. it returns:

Linux ANAS01 2.4.27-uc1 #1185 Fr Nov 18 11:37:24 CET 2005 armv5b unknown

ANAS01 is the hostname of the box. I took the date and time out of it and googled it. The most likely result was: http://www.uclinux.org. It appears to be an embedded version of linux.

Doing a "cd /", "ls" I get:

/ $ ls
bin etc lib root tmp var
dev home proc sbin usr zImage
/ $


I've tried "vi -R /etc/passwd" changing admin 0:0 but ":w!" doesn't write. (not supprised)

I've gone through the forum looking for help, but as i'm not at the console (as it were) I can't see the suggestions will work.

I have though about taking the drive out of the NAS and booting it like a normal drive however, forgive me for my ignorance, but i presume an embedded system referes to the OS being an a chip, therefore removing the drive would not help.

If anybody has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you hadn't already guessed i'm a novice at linux so answers for dummies would be appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

Woter