On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:25:00AM +0200, Giuseppe Cavallaro wrote: > Hi All, > ho can I login as root user with an empty password? > Do I need to hack the code or I have to configure dropbear in "special" way?
It already should work. As a test, I set up the root user on an Ubuntu 7.04 system to have an entry in /etc/shadow of root:R7gIX4dJJcCFw:13612:0:99999:7::: and it worked fine. "R7gIX4dJJcCFw" is just the crypt of an empty password - the Linux password utility wouldn't let me set it manually. You still have to press enter in your client to log in - Dropbear 0.50's dbclient will provide the ability to set DROPBEAR_PASSWORD="" and avoid that. I assume you're running this on a closed network or something -- otherwise it'd be a tad insecure. Matt
