Luca, your reply is complete BullSH*T

Following up on this thread, the exact same thing happened to me!

The factory default script provided by one of these packages wiped out all
/home folders and /var/log.

Someone needs to fix this.

After running the apt-get install, the instructions state
"IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

You can now point your browser to https://localhost

The default user is nbox with password nbox

Please run a factory reset by GUI (System -> Factory Reset )

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT"


After you do this, you will completely screw up your system.

Looking at the CGI/HTML code, that button runs /usr/local/bin/factory_reset

This script looks like something NTOP installed, since it was created the
same time I did my apt-get install of ntopng/nbox/etc.

Inside that script, there are several HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE commands that not
only reset your NIC configuration, but also:

#
# Delete all users and reset the root passwod
#
/bin/rm -rf /root/* /root/.[a-Z]* /root/.[0-9]*

for USER in `cd /home; /bin/ls -1`
do
    echo "Removing user $USER..."
    userdel -f -r $USER
done

# system cleanup
find /var/log/ -type f -exec /bin/rm {} ';'

find / -type f -name "*~" | xargs rm -f

rm -f /root/.ssh/known_hosts
rm -f /root/.bash_history

WTF is it completely wiping out all of our settings.

This completely wiped out all user accounts and just left the new nbox and
n2disk user accounts.

I checked my /etc/shadow file any only two accounts remained:  nbox, n2disk


--Highly Annoyed NTOP User

---------------------------------------------------------

After running this:

   - apt-get install ntopng pfring nprobe ntopng-data n2disk nbox

and running a Factory Reset in the nbox GUI,
my root file system was wiped out and my existing /home folders were gone
and /etc/passwd was replaced.

I'd really like to not have that happen when I try again to instal ntop.
Can anyone clue me in on which of those packages is deadly to my existing
Ubuntu server?
Thanks!


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Luca Deri <deri at ntop.org
<http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc>> wrote:

>* Kevin
*>* for the nBox a factory reset means to set things like IP address etc. not
*>* to wipe the OS. Pur tools are just packages not an OS, so you do noted to
*>* modify the OS
*>>* Regard Luca
*>>* > On 09 May 2016, at 22:53, Kevin Kleinfelter <ntop at
kleinfelter.com
<http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc>>
*>* wrote:
*>* >
*>* > I didn't RTFM closely enough.  I installed ntopng and nbox.  It said to
*>* run a Factory Reset, so I ran a Factory Reset.  I wasn't planning on wiping
*>* out my old OS, but I did.
*>* >
*>* > I'd like to not repeat that mistake, but I'd also like to get all the
*>* goodness of web-based analysis of rflow data.
*>* >
*>* > Was my key mistake in installing nbox?  Can I safely install ntopng
*>* after rebuilding my machine and not have it wipe out my OS?
*>* > thanks,
*>* >
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