Pretty much it's assumed that if you can login to a machine in any
way, you know the password and you change it regularly. It's just a
bad thing when it's decryptable in my opinion. Otherwise, there's a
huge problem with SSH in general and should be avoided like the
plague. (in 2 occasions or so
FreeBSD, and I would have to assume OpenBSD have root login via ssh
disabled by default. It doesn't make much sense why linux distros don't
change this, but it doesn't make sense why MySQL is shipped without a
root password either. I guess someone thinks it's a good idea, or
doesn't think it'
OMG, I didn't know that! I'm willing to bet a lot of people on the list
didn't, either! I guess I'm just lucky as, since I don't need it, I
don't run it.
Mike
On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Quoting "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Am 20. Mai, 2008 schwätzte
Quoting "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Am 20. Mai, 2008 schwätzte Erich Newell so:
>
>> If you do this however...I highly recommend editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> file to not allow root logon.
>
> Shouldn't sshd generally be configured to not allow logging in as root?
It should. But even
On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:34:52 -0700, "Matt Graham"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 19. Mai, 2008 schwatzte [EMAIL PROTECTED] so:
> >> Next up, the question: has anyone tried gaming on FreeBSD? I've seen
> >> past stuff mainly about problems W
After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> Am 19. Mai, 2008 schwatzte [EMAIL PROTECTED] so:
>> Next up, the question: has anyone tried gaming on FreeBSD? I've seen
>> past stuff mainly about problems WRT native software liking ALSA over
>> OSS, but I don't know if that's been solved or
Am 20. Mai, 2008 schwätzte Erich Newell so:
If you do this however...I highly recommend editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file to not allow root logon.
Shouldn't sshd generally be configured to not allow logging in as root?
I believed that before sudo was readily available and really believe i
Am 19. Mai, 2008 schwätzte [EMAIL PROTECTED] so:
Next up, the question: has anyone tried gaming on FreeBSD? I've seen
past stuff mainly about problems WRT native software liking ALSA over
OSS, but I don't know if that's
been solved or got worse. What about WINE and its decendants?
I'm always
Ok...now that I got that bit out of my system. Onto the more list-pertinent
bits...
Re: LiveCD root user...the default user is a member of sudoers. Simply:
'sudo passwd root' and enter a password of your choice
Alternately, if you want to be uber hacker 1337ski...you could open the .iso
in your f
I have one thing to say about this...and I'm very serious.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!
Really.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I came across this while searching for the answer to the question
> following this, and IMMEDIATELY posted it here! Feel free to f
I came across this while searching for the answer to the question
following this, and IMMEDIATELY posted it here! Feel free to forward it
to /. if you have an account there.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/king3vbo/best-vista-error-evar-toppled-by-new-error--58729.phtml
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