RE: [cobalt-developers] root access to qube3

["Pierre Maloka" <PierreMaloka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, I thought that with VNC, I could connect in even if the qube doesn't
have video and kb. I will take a look at the software you recommended,
thanks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Thomson
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:29 PM
> To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] root access to qube3
>
>
> Hey, the below works fine, telnet.exe that comes with windows does work,
> just not very well, I would recomend you look into getting a nice telnet
> client, you can find several off of tucows.com or download.com.
> I personaly
> use Token 2, its a little buggy at times when editing but  it has a very
> very large buffer so you can scroll back and see what you've done.
>
> As for setting up KDE or Gnome, thats impossible, well, never say that
> becuase the qube does HAVE a pci slot and a serial connection....
> can we say
> monitor and serial keyboard? ;) But as far as administrating the
> Qube (or a
> RaQ for that matter) you should be doing this from an office or home, or
> somewhere far away from the device, the point of the Cobalt line
> of products
> is that you don't HAVE to be near the device, which in an industry
> application is in a datacenter with hundreds of systems and a few monitors
> hooked up on massive KVM switches....
>
> Anyways, forget about KDE or Gnome, I would recomend a wonderfull little
> program called Webmin, which can be found at www.webmin.com which
> is sort of
> an expansion past the cobalt sauce (web baised administration).
> You have to
> get the binary install but its great to manage files in a visual
> format and
> too tons of stuff without telnet.  I will caution you though, things like
> users, e-mails, domains, change all that stuff via the normal cobalt
> interphase, last thing you wanna do is mess something up in their postgres
> database... which is password locked at the factory btw, you can't use it
> for other things or even look at it.
>
> Usualy, I compose my scripts on a windows machine, Editpad (NOT NOTEPAD ;)
> and the ftp the files to my home dir on the qube3 I'm testing, then cp the
> files where I need them from there in telnet, run them, and boom,
> there you
> go.
>
> -Kevin Thomson
> webservices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pierre
> Maloka
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 12:05 PM
> To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] root access to qube3
>
>
> I am new to qube as well.
>
> This is all done using telnet.
> 1) So first, enable telnet in your Qube using the Admin tools (web pages).
> 2) I use WinME, so I open a dos box and run telnet (telnet.exe).
> 3) Login to your Qube as admin, use your admin password.
> 4) Then type "su -" and then enter the admin password again.
>
> when you are done, type "logout" to return to admin.
>
> Hope this works for you as well...
>
> If anyone knows a better way, please let me know.
>
> Anyone know how to setup a KDE or GNOME front end for the Qube3?
>
> Hey COBALT, how about including instructions for X and VNC?
>
> I sure don't like using klunky text editors in telnet...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of jstrebel
> > Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 10:26 AM
> > To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [cobalt-developers] root access to qube3
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to enable to login as user root, but without success.
> > Most probably this is because I am not that familiar with Redhat Linux.
> > With the SuSE distributions it is possible to enable this in the
> > /etc/rc.config file.
> >
> > Could anybody on this list point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks jakob
> >
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