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

["Mike Fritsch" <moley187@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know how to change the admins PW but how do you root's password?
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Zimmermann <zim@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 admin & root passwords


> ----- 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
>
>
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