Root password and ssh?

Bastian Muck bastian.muck at gmx.de
Thu May 15 00:32:01 CEST 2008


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
 
I don't know why, but it seems, as this is just done at this time. The 
playlist of the mediaplayer is stored in the directory of root.

Greetings Bastian

Bradley Hook schrieb:
| I'd have to ask why your music files and images are owned and readable
| only by root. Doesn't make much sense. You don't run your media player
| as root, do you? Config files should be chmod 640 to root, and certain
| executables as well, but content and such should be in the arena of
| normal users. And you WANT to inconvenience your users if they are
| trying to do something as insecure as logging in over ssh as root. I do
| hope that OM isn't set up to run everything as root by default...
|
| Mo Abrahams wrote:
| | Except for if music files, images etc.ÿ on the phone are owned by root,
| | in which case we wouldn't be able to access them via ssh.
| |
| | On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:54 -0500, Stephen Shelton wrote:
| |> Why not disable login as root? Seems pretty simple, and IMO a good
| practice in
| |> general. I assume logging in as foo user works as normal...?
| |>
| |
| |
| | _______________________________________________
| | Openmoko community mailing list
| | community at lists.openmoko.org
| | http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
| |
| |
|

_______________________________________________
Openmoko community mailing list
community at lists.openmoko.org
http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
 
iD8DBQFIK2hhlYiDScJJ+7QRAkyjAKD03mocwiwjjox1SUn9oIJUy9711QCgyXHB
cGUFWHjsoIPiw1nZUQ0ySDo=
=OhHe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----





More information about the community mailing list