Hi On 08/08/2007, Matt Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks, it works like a charm! 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. I'm using dropbear 0.49 on an embedded system based on uClibc with a private network (p2p). ---- Just another question: Is it possible to totally skip authentication phase with dropbear? I mean, using telnet or ssh (but configuring the latter) I'm able to login without entering password and login. In this case my root entry in passwd is root::0:0 ... Thanks a lot Ciao Giuseppe > Matt >
