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 Apr 3 2007, 11:49 PM
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Hi to all! I have a C3000 from 2 days, when I opened for the first time the sistem (pdaxii13) log-in without any password with the user ROOT.
As for the other linux system is usefull in zaurus have another account rather than root? CIAO! |
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Apr 4 2007, 04:26 AM
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You can make a new user if you want. There's the useradd and adduser commands but I think useradd does a better job at setting up a new user ( http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=123930 ).
You will want to be careful about launching X windows as a non-root user. Some distro's like OE's OZ are designed to be run X as a non-root user. pdaXrom and it's spinoffs (i.e. pdaXii13) require some work on your part to run X as a non-root user. |
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Apr 4 2007, 05:16 AM
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pdaXii13 has other users, ie zaurus, privoxy, etc... which are used when connecting to other systems or allowing access from other systems. it uses root as the active user which shouldn't be a problem compared to other linux systems since the Zaurus is in most cases only used by one user, ie it is not a true multi user system and by default, the zaurus is not connected to the net constantly. telnetd, ftpd and sendmail are not enabled on the zaurus which are the biggest backdoor entries, it has samba (but not started by default) and sshd running, but only non-root users, ie zaurus is allowed access.
one thing is important though, you should set a password for root and zaurus user if you are really paranoid, install a firewall or setup iptables to block malicious packets or probes... |
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Apr 4 2007, 05:34 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 28-November 06 From: Turin, ITALY Member No.: 12,889 |
thanks to all for the answers,
my paranoy is to make some errors in deleting files that are needed for the system 
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Apr 11 2007, 06:08 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 2,808 Joined: 21-March 05 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 6,686 |
QUOTE(bort_83 @ Apr 4 2007, 11:34 PM) thanks to all for the answers, my paranoy is to make some errors in deleting files that are needed for the system  make a backup so when you do something bad, you can restore it. once you have done a few backups and restores, you will automatically learn not to mess things up cause it takes hours to restore paranoia sometimes also works for your advantage ...
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Apr 13 2007, 08:22 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 28-November 06 From: Turin, ITALY Member No.: 12,889 |
QUOTE(Meanie @ Apr 12 2007, 04:08 AM) make a backup so when you do something bad, you can restore it. once you have done a few backups and restores, you will automatically learn not to mess things up cause it takes hours to restore paranoia sometimes also works for your advantage ...thank you, with pdaXii on a C3000 is possible to make some backup like disk image on PCs ? this can be usefull ? What is in the ROM of C3000 if the root fs is in the microdrive? is usefull to backup also the ROM? suggest me something to search for
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Apr 13 2007, 08:55 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 2,808 Joined: 21-March 05 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 6,686 |
QUOTE(bort_83 @ Apr 14 2007, 02:22 AM) QUOTE(Meanie @ Apr 12 2007, 04:08 AM) make a backup so when you do something bad, you can restore it. once you have done a few backups and restores, you will automatically learn not to mess things up cause it takes hours to restore paranoia sometimes also works for your advantage ...thank you, with pdaXii on a C3000 is possible to make some backup like disk image on PCs ? this can be usefull ? What is in the ROM of C3000 if the root fs is in the microdrive? is usefull to backup also the ROM? suggest me something to search for zbackup takes care of that... |
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