Very cool - I'm in as root! Now this is a *real* Linux box! ... although, from another perspective, I find it incredibly uncool that I've been walking around with a machine with a widely known default root password, not knowing that I'd enabled remote access to it when I installed the "ssh" package. I was under the impression that you had to go through some bizarre and risky gyration to obtain root access to the machine... not simply ssh to localhost!!!!! Eek?!? Now, another geeky question. "user" is a lame login name. I'm going to assume that it is incredibly unwise to rename "user" to something reasonable, like "thomas" :) ... is it possible to create a new user and login using that account instead? I see (via redpill mode) that "adduser" is one of the packages installed. I also noticed that "/etc/shells" has a long list of shells. It seems just slightly strange to me that, on a device this resource constrained, they'd "waste" even that many "bytes" by not truncating this file... makes me wonder what other potential "optimizations" haven't been done. I also wonder how the synaptic install package managed to add a line referencing itself to /etc/sudoers... if the app installer permits modifications of this sort to be made to /etc/sudoers, doesn't that suggest someone could simply write an app that added the line below, or write a malicious app that gave itself root privileges? What's the default password for "user"? Will changing it affect anything, since obviously the system auto-starts? Thomas James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 12:39:52 Thomas Leavitt wrote: > >> What's the cleanest way to get this? >> >> Thomas >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users at maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> > > For me and my way of thinking. Install Xterm... Install openssh (as apposed > to dropbear) from garage. open Xterm and do ssh root at localhost use rootme > as the password. Add this line to /etc/sudoers > > user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > Now give bother the user named user and root real passwords. Once you do this > user, user can sudo su to root whenever you need it to. I also recommend > removing the ability of root to ssh directly after you have confirmed that > you can sudo. > > James > > >
