Root disabled in dropbear for 2008?

[namtastic]

Just found and installed dropbear for OS2008 and while changing the root password for protection, I noticed the old "rootme" password no longer works. Did this change for the chinook build? Did dropbear remove the ability to ssh in as root? Anyone know? Thanks!

[penguinbait]

Just found and installed dropbear for OS2008 and while changing the root password for protection, I noticed the old "rootme" password no longer works. Did this change for the chinook build? Did dropbear remove the ability to ssh in as root? Anyone know? Thanks!


I do not use dropbear, but

In 2008OS, I had to use sudo gainroot, then changed the root password.

rootme would not let me in?

Install becomeroot or enable r&d mode, and use sudo gainroot

[namtastic]

There used to be a way to get root access via SSH with the old dropbear by installing the server and then using "ssh root@<IP>" with the password "rootme".

I'm just trying to find out if I need to worry about it. If it's a new password, then I should change it to something that can't be exploited. But if root access is disabled, then I can forget out about it.

[lderkacz]

It seems not working anymore, You have to enable RD mode to log in into root.

[lork]

It seems not working anymore, You have to enable RD mode to log in into root.
and how does one do that?

[kf6gpe]

Run flasher with the --enable-rd-mode flag set.
See http://maemo.org/community/wiki/rdmode/.

[arsa]

becomeroot seems to be the only fast way now, described well here:
http://www.arachnoid.com/linux/nokia/