After gaining admin access to the mongo database I updated the password of the nodebb application
After generating our own idrsa and replacing it with the root idRsa we were able to log in as root.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /home/kali/.ssh/id_rsa
Your public key has been saved in /home/kali/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:77ufSzZu/0b3gdzFwZOzihQewkazcg5T4qZ19is9l2M kali@kali
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 3072]----+
| .o+ . .|
| . o+oo * |
| B.=o o .=|
| + O .o .o|
| . S...o + .|
| ....+.oo|
| ..++E .+|
| ..+=o. o|
| +==o.o.|
+----[SHA256]-----+