root password under Cacko ROM

[agosine]

Does anyone have the root password under the Cacko ROM?  I enabled the telnet server but can't log into root.  It works if I log in using zaurus.  Is there something I have to change to enable root telnet login?  Thanks..

[iamasmith]

The root password defaults to blank.

Try logging in as zaurus and using su.

The pam module is probably configured to disallow root from telnet login as this is widely regarded as insecure (plain text password sent over the wire).

Even better use ssh, if you have Cacko 1.21b installed then your ssh is already set up on the Z.

[agosine]

I'm using the Cacko ROM on my 5500.  Is there anything I need to do to allow SSH (keys)?  I've never used it before.

[iamasmith]

Ok, will have to admit I haven't seen an SL-5500 version of Cacko but I'm assuming that it's got an ssh server built in.

Typical default configuration for ssh is to run in a fairly light weight security mode and to allow communications from systems that you haven't already exchanged keys with. You run ssh against a new host and it exchanges the keys at that point and stores them (on a Linux client in a directory called ~/.ssh). So I guess the answer is no, you shouldn't need to 'exchange keys' with a default config (If I'm right that there is an ssh server on this ROM - perhaps an SL-5500 Cacko user could confirm ?).

If you (god forbid) want to communicate from a Windows host then you may want to download a copy of PuTTY as this a pretty good freebie version of ssh. Pretty much all modern distros of linux will have an ssh client on by default.

Hope this helps,

Andy