I changed the root user password to something reasonable. I noticed that the "user" account is "locked" (!) in /etc/passwd... should I actually change that? How can I get a decent shell on this thing, without freaking out "busybox" or doing something wierd like installing a package that renames bash to bash-m... After looking at the various cross-dependencies, it would appear that doing anything serious requires dumping busybox and replacing it, but synaptic, etc. insist that everything that makes the box functional is dependent ont the busybox package... so, what do people do in this case? 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 > > >
