highascg

Default logins

Every HighAsCG box built from the ISO ships with the same logins. They are published here on purpose: they are not secrets. Change them on your own box; the commands are below.

What	User	Password	Where it is used
Box account (desktop, terminal, SSH, sudo)	casparcg	highascg	the installed system
Live USB session (before installing)	live	evolution	only while booted from the stick; root is evolution too
GDTF Share (fixture library download)	the box’s shared account	stored in ~/.highascg/gdtf-share.json	Previs → Fixtures, MVR import

Nothing else ships:

• no SSH host keys (each install makes its own on first start);
• no SSH user keys;
• no TLS key (the old :4443 HTTPS proxy is gone, WO-822; a leftover config/certs/ is excluded from sticks, ISOs and releases);
• no API token (made on first boot when auth is on, see SECURITY.md);
• no Tailscale, Syncthing or GitHub identity;
• no Companion database.

Change the box password (do this first)

Open a terminal on the box (or ssh casparcg@<box-ip>):

passwd

1. Type the current password: highascg.
2. Type the new password twice.

It changes the desktop, SSH and sudo password at once.

Use your own GDTF Share account (optional)

The shared account works out of the box. To use your own free account from https://gdtf-share.com instead (activate it from the e-mail first: a new account answers 401 until then):

curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:4200/api/fixtures/share/account \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"user":"YOUR_USER","password":"YOUR_PASSWORD"}'

The password is stored only on this box (~/.highascg/gdtf-share.json, mode 0600) and is never sent back by the API.

For whoever builds the ISO

• tools/eggs/live-usb/prepare-eggs-clone-with-exfat.sh warns when casparcg’s password is not highascg. The installer has no “create user” step, so the build box’s password is what every install gets.
• The exclude lists (penguins-eggs-exclude-highascg-*.list, WO-669) keep everything else in the “nothing else ships” list above off the ISO.

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