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[zwdpacjent]

Hi All

 

Thanks for having me here. 

 

I was wondering if there is a safe and robust way to protect the openpli sat receiver from unwanted root password changes ? (not including low level flash via usb - as long as my data is also wiped then Im happy) I know my way around linux platform but I rather ask before I break my own Vu+. I dont have time for another sw installations atm. I understand that Change Root Password apk can also change the password, hence my question to OpenPli devs. 

 

Please kindly advise. Many thanks !

 

 

 

[scriptmelvin †]

Afaik, any method (including the Change Password plugin) to change the root password requires the old password. Except... if one accesses the box with Samba, one can edit /etc/shadow without a password.

 

You could make the file immutable: chattr +i /etc/shadow

Now the only way to change the file through Samba is to make it mutable again... which requires the root password.

[WanWizard]

In smb-user.conf, remove the # in front of the smb-secure.conf include, and anonymous access via samba is disabled.

[zwdpacjent]

Thank you very much both for the support. Tested & working well.