WD MyBook World SSH access

You may find following the below steps on your WD MyBook World Blue Ring (wd10000g032) that you are unable to login using ‘root’ via SSH.

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If you can’t login as root try the following

Login as ADMIN (on the New firmware login as ADMIN (new versions in UPPERCASE old version lowercase) with password 123456)
type ‘su’
type ‘passwd’
enter new root password

then ‘chmod -r 777 /shares/internal/PUBLIC/’