I created a fresh Adobe Media Server 5 (aka Flash Media Server) instance on Amazon EC2 AWS, I connected over SSH and changed the default password, everything looks ok. But the amsadmin account doesn't seem to have enough access to administrate the instance. I can read most of the files and folders (access denied for /lib; /lost+found and /root).
I can connect ok
ssh -i key.pem [email protected]
I can upload to the media folder
scp -i key.pem test.f4v [email protected]:/mnt/applications/vod/media
I can't upload content to webroot; for example if I wanted to add a crossdomain.xml file to the web root.
scp -i key.pem crossdomain.xml [email protected]:/mnt/webroot/
I can't create a directory; I want to setup S3 to store content, step 5 says to:
Create a directory on the instance to mount the S3 bucket, for example, /mnt/s3fs.
But under the amsadmin account I get an access denied error, is this expected?
How can I get access to these restricted areas?
Update:
I tried executing the commands with sudo and I entered the correct password for amsadmin, got "Sorry, try again".
Do I need to setup a root account?
Figured it out, I needed to run the commands using
sudo shafter connecting to the instance via SSH.