Re: [beagleboard] Re: Root login change?

2017-03-03 Thread William Hermans
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > Well -- if I were exposing one to the wild, I'd probably delete the > debian account too, after creating a new user account. > > That's understandable. One could actually just change the account name if they wished, along with

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Root login change?

2017-03-03 Thread William Hermans
So let's imagine, someone gaining root access( known as rooting, or being rooted ) to your system is feeling charitable, and only runs something like: *WARNING - Do not do this ! You've been warned.* # gzip -9 -r / What do you suppose will happen, and then what do you suppose you will do to fix

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Root login change?

2017-03-03 Thread William Hermans
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Let me guess -- the next step will be to have the first connection > to > "debian/temppwd" require the user to change the password. > Anyone with half a brain should already be doing that one their own. Or expect to get "hacked"

[beagleboard] Re: Root login change?

2017-03-02 Thread Jason Kridner
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:56 PM Jason Kridner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:22 PM Kurt Talke wrote: > > Hi, > > I’m wondering why logging in over ssh as root is not longer possible on > the latest BBB image. For installing embedded lab view, I need to be able > to log in as root. > > I tried

[beagleboard] Re: Root login change?

2017-03-02 Thread Jason Kridner
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:22 PM Kurt Talke wrote: > Hi, > > I’m wondering why logging in over ssh as root is not longer possible on > the latest BBB image. For installing embedded lab view, I need to be able > to log in as root. > > I tried changing the root password, which actually shows properl