Hi, This is obviously a pretty old topic - but there wasn't an answer, does anyone know what the solution to this is?
On Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 9:26:46 PM UTC+1, jhar...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I have a BeagleBone Black board and I am trying to disable SSH root login. > The board is running the newest Angstrom Linux build, but other than that > the rest of the settings are stock. > > I created a new user w/ password and added a password to the root user. I > am able to SSH into the board through Putty, as either the user or root, > but I want to disable being able to login as root. > > I updated /etc/init.d/dropbear and added a "-w" to the > "DROPBEAR_EXTRA_ARGS=" line, and rebooted, but I could still login as root. > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin >> DAEMON=/usr/sbin/dropbear >> NAME=dropbear >> DESC="Dropbear SSH server" >> DROPBEAR_PORT=22 >> DROPBEAR_EXTRA_ARGS= >> *"-w"*NO_START=0 >> set -e > > > I also checked the K10dropbear files in the rc*.d directories and the > "-w" was in all 6 files. > > I then saw that it says at the top of the file " # Do not configure this > file. Edit /etc/default/dropbear instead! ", but the "dropbear" file does > not exist in my /etc/default/ folder. > So my next attempt I reverted the file in init.d back to the original and > I created a new "dropbear" file in /etc/default and put the following info > inside. (which I found from a google search) > > /etc/default/dropbear... > > #any additional arguments for Dropbear >> DROPBEAR_EXTRA_ARGS="-w" >> > > I then rebooted again and still no luck, I can still login as root through > putty. I'm not sure what I am missing here... > > Thank you in advanced. > > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
