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Monday, April 8, 2013

Password-Protect Your SMILE Plug

When you turn on your SMILE, anyone can connect to its wireless network and then login as root. Totally insecure! So it's a good idea to change root's password. How? The command is "passwd". After ssh'ing to the plug, just type passwd, enter (and re-enter) the new password, and you're done.

root@SMILEplug:~# passwd
Enter new UNIX password: <password>
Retype new UNIX password: 
<password>
passwd: password updated successfully
root@SMILEplug:~#


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