On Feb 4, 2008 11:37 AM, subbukk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 Jan 2008 4:48:08 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > The 2008-1-12 OLPC News says "... so that we can finally disable the > > root and olpc passwords". > > > > The way I have my G1G1 system set up (I have no wireless) I *need* > > to ftp in. For that, I have set a password for olpc. It would be > > ok with me to set up a different user+password for ftp, but would > > *not* be ok for password support to be "disabled". > Mikus, > > Just what exactly do you need ftp for? There are much better alternatives for > transfering files. > > You may want to use nc (from netcat package). It is smaller, easier and has > none of the user/password/double-port stuff. snip
Or better yet, use sftp or scp. Your olpc user gets his/her own keys generated when you first start up. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
