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Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 root password
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 root password
- From: "Trevor Munday" <tmunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Oct 16 20:08:42 2000
- Organization: DestiNet Limited
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> > Also, when you change the admin password using the GUI, the
> > root password is also changed _unless_ you have changed the
> > root password using passwd.
>
> This isn't right.
>
> The GUI changes both the admin and root password ALWAYS. Whenever you
change
> the admin password, you'll find that the root password is not identical to
> it. I wanted to leave admin functions to one of the guys in the office but
> keep root access to myself (also killing telnet and using SSH), so I
changed
> the root password. I also told him to change the admin password every two
> weeks.
>
> Two weeks later, I couldn't get into the Qube.
Isn't that EXACTLY what Peter said?
Trevor.