dropbear authentication

2007-08-08 Thread Giuseppe Cavallaro
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? Welcome advice, Regards, Giuseppe

Re: dropbear authentication

2007-08-08 Thread wimpunk
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? Welcome advice, Regards, Giuseppe As far as I know, you can if you use keys to get in. If there's another solution, I'm

Re: dropbear authentication

2007-08-08 Thread Matt Johnston
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

Re: dropbear authentication

2007-08-08 Thread Giuseppe Cavallaro
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.

Re: dropbear authentication

2007-08-08 Thread Matt Johnston
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:53:12AM +0200, Giuseppe Cavallaro wrote: 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

Re: dropbear authentication

2007-08-08 Thread Giuseppe Cavallaro
Hi Matt, It works fine if I set root:R7gIX4dJJcCFw:... in passwd file. So I'd like to have the same scenario but using root::... in passwd. Is it possible? Thanks a lot for your excellent support, Giuseppe There's a hardcoded check in checkusername() that won't allow an empty password crypt