And Cloud9 IDE which runs as root. 

I'm looking if any security grad student wants to do a study on how to secure a 
BeagleBone and keep the ease of use. Just leaving a conference with the guys 
leading some of the analysis of Mirai out of U of M and I hope they'll take the 
challenge. 

> On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Josiah Yoder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I teach a real-time systems class where students use Beaglebone over the
>> network.  Generally, we are behind  a protected firewall, but sometimes the
>> students want to debug on other parts of the campus.
>> 
>> By default, one can access the root account without a password.  If my
>> students put such a BeagleBone on a network where the IP is externally
>> visible, is it likely that the BeagleBone will become infected by the
>> open-source botnet software Mirai?
>> 
>> I guess it's a moot point -- the root password should be changed before
>> attaching the BeagleBone to a public network anyway!
> 
> At-least run:
> 
> cd /opt/scripts/un-tweak-image/
> 
> sudo ./debian-re-secure-root-ssh.sh
> 
> and it'll set a root password and disable "PermitEmptyPasswords"
> sshd_config option..
> 
> and remove "bonescript", you can just disable disable the two
> bonescript system service files..
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> 
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