Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 admin & root passwords

["Michael Zimmermann" <zim@xxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Kristian Søgaard" <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I have an admin password that works fine, but when I telnet, I do not
have
> > permission on root and some other directories.
> Try logging in as admin, and typing:
>         su -
> Enter you admin password and you should be root.
> > Is the root password different than the admin password?
> It's normally the same.

If this is so, change it.

Also install ssh, and when you are able to login via ssh,
disable telnet and change both the passwords of admin
and root again into some good but different passwords.

While being online for some time tonight, it came to my attention,
that two of the RaQs of members of this list have been severely
hacked. Both admins used telnet to connect and work as root.
A coincidence? I don't think so. An other secuity hole than
telnet? Perhaps, but it's a fact, that this telnet-window was
left open on both hacked machines.

Michael