Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread George Brooke
On Tue, 13 May 2008 23:03:45 +0100 andy selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are correct, the root account on the phone has a blank password, Maybe part of the getting started manual could include setting up pubkey authentication and disabling password logins (at least for the wifi maybe they

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread michael
Well, it would take programming but I think the correct method of handling this would be to either disable ssh altogether or (perferably) only enable it for the usb interface, and then *if* a user wants to make their phone availble for ssh via wifi there should be an enable ssh

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Stephen Shelton
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it would take programming but I think the correct method of handling this would be to either disable ssh altogether or (perferably) only enable it for the usb interface, and then *if* a user wants to make their

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Mo Abrahams
Except for if music files, images etc. on the phone are owned by root, in which case we wouldn't be able to access them via ssh. On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:54 -0500, Stephen Shelton wrote: Why not disable login as root? Seems pretty simple, and IMO a good practice in general. I assume logging in

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/14 Mo Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Except for if music files, images etc. on the phone are owned by root, in which case we wouldn't be able to access them via ssh. On the contrary! 1. Disable root login via ssh. 2. Log in as a luser. 3. Su to root. -- http://dsource.org/projects/dmocks

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Stephen Shelton
That would impede scp'ing said files... -- Stephen Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stephenashelton.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Mo Abrahams
Aha, of course. I didn't think about it properly (I blame lack of caffeine, a problem now solved). I was thinking about it as if logging in as root was disabled altogether. On a slightly related note... what is the hostname of the phone? Can it be set or is it going to be the same for all

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Dirk Deimeke
Hi, That would impede scp'ing said files... security costs comfort ... that is the way it is. scp file freerunner:/tmp ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo cp /tmp/file /final/destination Dirk ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Andy Powell
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:58, George Brooke wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 23:03:45 +0100 andy selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are correct, the root account on the phone has a blank password, Maybe part of the getting started manual could include setting up pubkey authentication and

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Bradley Hook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd have to ask why your music files and images are owned and readable only by root. Doesn't make much sense. You don't run your media player as root, do you? Config files should be chmod 640 to root, and certain executables as well, but content and

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Dirk Deimeke wrote: security costs comfort ... that is the way it is. scp file freerunner:/tmp ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo cp /tmp/file /final/destination Well, you can always login via SSH as a root... Then I generally use SSH using both konqueror kio and Gnome gvfs and I don't lose any

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Bastian Muck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know why, but it seems, as this is just done at this time. The playlist of the mediaplayer is stored in the directory of root. Greetings Bastian Bradley Hook schrieb: | I'd have to ask why your music files and images are owned and

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Dirk Deimeke
Hi, Well, you can always login via SSH as a root... if this is configured ... You can not login as root on any of my machines, you can not even login with a bare password. But everyone can use the level of security he wants. Dirk ___ Openmoko

Root password and ssh?

2008-05-13 Thread George Brooke
Hi, am i right in thinking that the root account on the openmoko has no password - if so is that not quite a large security hole what with wifi and sshd being enabled, or is sshd only available over usb? solar.george ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-13 Thread andy selby
am i right in thinking that the root account on the openmoko has no password - if so is that not quite a large security hole what with wifi and sshd being enabled, or is sshd only available over usb? You are correct, the root account on the phone has a blank password, Since no one has wifi