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JBox
Tutor
Apr 01, 2021

WAX214 SSH access: What username and password?

I have setup a new WAX214 access point and have a question about one of the functions. There is an option in the web admin interface under Management > Advanced called "SSH Setting" which I assume al...
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JohnC_V
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Apr 08, 2021

JBox,

 

Welcome to our community! :)

 

My apologies but SSH access is restricted to users and it can only be accessible by our engineering team.

 

Regards,

 

John

NETGEAR Community Team

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JBox
Tutor
Apr 22, 2021

Can you elaborate further on what you mean by "SSH access is restricted to users"? Does that mean there is a static list of user IDs across all WAX214 units?

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    JohnC_V
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Apr 22, 2021

    JBox,

     

    My apologies for the confusion. Only our engineering team is allowed to have access to SSH for debug.

     

    Regards,

     

    John

    NETGEAR Community Team

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