[maemo-users] Getting root on OS2008

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:40:31PM +0200, Ari Yrjölä wrote:
> "Andrew Flegg" <andrew at bleb.org> writes:
> > On Dec 30, 2007 12:42 PM, Ari Yrjölä <ayrjola at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >> Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> writes:
> >>
> >> >  1. Enable the Maemo Extras repository
> >> >  2. Install openssh
> >> >  3. Define a root password (openssh's installer prompts you for this)
> >>
> >> Doesn't ask anything here with N800.
> >
> > There seem to be a couple of different openssh packages. Only one
> > asked me to enter a new root account password, the other was more
> > "traditional".
> 
> Ach. I think there was some other openssh in extras-devel, but it
> refused to install. Cannot see it there now. Maemo-extras has
> version 1:4.6p1-5maemo3, which doesn't ask anything.

This is the version that I installed.

According to /var/lib/dpkg/info/openssh-server.postinst, it only asks
for a new root password when you install openssh-server, not when you
upgrade.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
System going down at 5 this afternoon to install scheduler bug.
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