We have some embedded controllers that were shipped to us with instructions
that we can access the system through FTP using the account: user: ‘root’,
password: ‘password’. This works as the vendor claims. However, we can not
use Telnet to get to the system using this root account and there are no
login restrictions on the machine. Further more, when we try a local login
using the root account it does not work (we do not need to login at boot
because the shell is automatically spawned in sysinit). When we try to login
as root, it behaves as though we have the wrong password. When we use the
passwd utility to set the root password specifically to ‘password’, we can
now do a local login and even Telnet - how can this be if the password was
supposed to be that in the first place? *** However, when we change the
password as stated above, we can no longer use ‘root’ and ‘password’ to FTP
to the machine… I need to get to the ‘root’ of this problem!
Surprisingly (or maybe not) the vendor has not been able to offer any
suggestions. I’m hoping someone out there can steer me in the right
direction …
Just a shot in the dark… two different versions of crypt? There was a
security upgrade just before 4.25 was released. Maybe FTP is using a
different version than everything else.
We have some embedded controllers that were shipped to us with
instructions
that we can access the system through FTP using the account: user:
‘root’,
password: ‘password’. This works as the vendor claims. However, we can
not
use Telnet to get to the system using this root account and there are no
login restrictions on the machine. Further more, when we try a local login
using the root account it does not work (we do not need to login at boot
because the shell is automatically spawned in sysinit). When we try to
login
as root, it behaves as though we have the wrong password. When we use the
passwd utility to set the root password specifically to ‘password’, we can
now do a local login and even Telnet - how can this be if the password was
supposed to be that in the first place? *** However, when we change the
password as stated above, we can no longer use ‘root’ and ‘password’ to
FTP
to the machine… I need to get to the ‘root’ of this problem!
Surprisingly (or maybe not) the vendor has not been able to offer any
suggestions. I’m hoping someone out there can steer me in the right
direction …