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Re: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:54:29 -0500
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jeff Lasman wrote:
<snip>
>
> I think you'd still have a security hole. While I prefer separate
> passwords for admin and root, there's no easy way to do that on the RaQ.
>
How difficult is it to ssh into the RaQ and issue
su -
prompt password: enter admin/root password
passwd root
prompt for password: enter new root password
prompt for password: enter new root password
You now have different passwords for admin - root
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Gerald Waugh