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Re: [cobalt-security] How do we shadow these passwords?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] How do we shadow these passwords?
- From: Dave Love <dlove@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:00:20 -0600
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
1. SSH in as root
You'll need to set PermitRootLogin to yes in sshd_config. Depending on which version of ssh you run, you'll find it in /etc, /etc/ssh or /etc/ssh2.
It's a horribly insecure thing to do though. Just ssh in as a normal user and then '/bin/su' to root.
2. su to root
By default, only admin can 'su' to root. As a normal user, you'll need to '/bin/su - admin' and then '/bin/su -' to get root access. Once there, you can add your userid to the wheel group (/etc/group) which will allow you to su directly to root without going through admin.
- Dave
On Thursday, October 5, 2000, at 09:27 AM, Rod Todd wrote:
> Also, we can not su - from admin with the GUI admin
> password; nor can we SSH in with the root/admin
> passwords. Any clues?