Re: [cobalt-developers] SSH

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jay Nelson <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With all the stories of break-ins, I wanted to use SSH for telnet
> sessions to my RaQ3i.  Has anyone else done this?

I've installed both OpenSSH and "regular" SSH successfully on my RAQ2.

just the regular configure/make/make install.

(OpenSSH requires you to install openssl first.)

> Also, somewhat related, I'm aware that the admin password and the
> root password stay the same.  Root is not allowed to login.  You
> must login as admin and then su to root.  I assume this is because
> you don't want the root password going out as a network session,
> but doesn't it anyway when you su?  And besides, the password
> is the same for admin, so what is the point?  Basically, this is why
> I want to use SSH for all logins.

Linux (and most unixes) will not allow root login via telnet. I presume there
is some way you could hack it up to do this, but that would be a BAD THING.


Paul

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