This topic introduces you to your SmartMachine. It shows you how to verify that it's up and running and tells you what steps you should take next.

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First Things First

After you order a SmartMachine, you will get a Welcome email that lists the name of your SmartMachine, its IP address, and the usernames and passwords for several accounts that are set up by default. You can also see this information by loging into my.joyent.com.

Accessing Your SmartMachine From a Browser

Once your SmartMachine is running, it is available on the Internet. Until you set up domain name service for your SmartMachine, you can access it through the IP address given in your Welcome email.

The Preconfigured Accounts

Your SmartMachine comes with four preconfigured. Your welcome email and the entry for your SmartMachine in my.joyent.com lists the initial passwords for these accounts.

In the examples that follow,your.public.ip.address is the public address from the welcome email

admin

This is a user that has administrative privileges to use Virtualmin, the web interface to your SmartMachine.

To access Virtualmin, use the following address in a browser:

https://your.public.ip.address:10000

You may get a warning that the identity of the website can't be verified. You can safely ignore this message

You can use Virtualmin to create new users, change passwords, create and administer virtual web servers, run simple commands, and so on.

The admin user is also the default administration user for command line operation. It is a member of the staff group, so you can use sudo to perform adminstrative tasks without logging in as root. Use SSH to log in as admin:

ssh admin@your.public.ip.address

jill

Jill is the default website user. If you open a browser to http://your.public.ip.address, the items that are displayed are in the /home/jill/web/public directory.

Use SSH to log in as jill:

ssh jill@your.public.ip.address

root

This is the root user for your SmartMachine. As with other Unix-like systems, root is the superuser and has permission to change any file on the system.

To log in as root use the su command:

1. Log in to your SmartMachine as admin or jill.
2. Use the following command to become the superuser:

   su - 
   

   When prompted for a password, use the root password from your welcome email.

root (for MySQL)

This is the account for the root user for MySQL databases. This is the MySQL user that has privileges to create more MySQL users.

You can use the MySQL root account to create new databases, new users, to assign priviliges to users, and so on. To access MySQL use the following command:

mysql -u root -p

When prompted for a password, use the root password for MySQL access from the welcome email, not the password for the root user.