Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: ixbrian on August 01, 2010, 09:46:47 PM
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I have a couple of questions regarding passwords (I understand it is possible to change the passwords via your backup file, these questions are just related to how Tiny Core runs by default):
- When using the "user=" boot code, the custom user is assigned a password of "tcuser". If you don't specify the "user=" boot code, the default tc user doesn't have a password set. Why the difference?
- Why does the root user have the password set to "root"?
- Instead of having these 2 default passwords, would it be more secure to not have passwords defined at all for these accounts?
Thanks,
Brian
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For user root we don't want autologin, for user tc we do.
Additional users were typically for ssh access, where you would want at least a default password.
You can always to choose to setup your own passwords with the protect and secure boot options.
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For user root we don't want autologin, for user tc we do.
Additional users were typically for ssh access, where you would want at least a default password.
You can always to choose to setup your own passwords with the protect and secure boot options.
Thanks for the information. I have a couple of suggestions:
If the root password was set to "*" in /etc/shadow, I think this would prevent autologin, while also not providing a default root password. Not having a default root password could prevent possible security issues once users start installing extensions.
Regarding the default password for custom users created with "user=", it might be helpful if this was better documented that there is a default password (possibly in the ISOLINUX f2/f3 files?). I wasn't aware that there was a default password until I saw it in the tc-config script.
Thanks,
Brian
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root password set to *
Thanks!