Hi,

On 22/05/11 20:34, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> Reporting back with success!
>
> to recap, I have a globalscale guruserver plus for which I could not
> remember the root password, making it rather difficult to make some
> software mods and updates.
  the issue this whole sorry saga raises is one of passwords, and 
password protection...

On the firewall boxes, a bit of paper and sellotape with the root 
password written down
is a good thing. Even, write the password down with some jumbling 
algorithm to make it
less obvious..

No doubt, some would say, "but that is insecure".. If they have physical 
access, then it
is all over anyhow - and they will be grabbing things that can be easily 
sold, and not
bothering with little boxes.

Cheers,
  Derek.

-- 
Derek J Smithies Ph.D.
Christchurch,
New Zealand

      -- "How did you make it work??"  "the usual, got everything right"


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