'ssh' and 'scp' ... such a simple fix.

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Feb 12 12:30:16 MST 2010


On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:55 -0700, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> .
> Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions.
> 
> As is so often the case, the solution was so very, very simple.
> 
> In retrospect, the long interchange of messages on this subject issue
> (which actually began way back in October 2009 with the subject "scp times
> out") and recently continued over two full days with some 30 messages on
> this subject in total ... now appears to have all been totally
> unnecessary.
> 
> The solution was so simple.
> 
> Just 'su' to root and change the password.
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or use a 'better' password that actually passes pam_cracklib

Craig


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