ok everybody, as far as I can tell, Dumbo now has its latest upgrade and is back online!<br><br>Lacey<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Karl O. Pinc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kop@meme.com">kop@meme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 11/09/2009 09:17:13 AM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:<br>
> I'm pretty clueless about the hardware end of all of this, but I<br>
> Think<br>
> Karl<br>
> may be talking about the root password to our backup computer, not<br>
> papio.<br>
> I'm guessing they are different.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes. The password to dumbo, not papio.<br>
<br>
Ryan is right. Shared passwords are much less secure.<br>
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><br>
> Lacey<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ryan Hardy <<a href="mailto:rh87@duke.edu">rh87@duke.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > I don't want to speak out of turn, but I'd prefer that shared<br>
> passwords be<br>
> > kept to a bare minimum, especially with something as sensitive as<br>
> the root<br>
> > password. In fact, I wasn't even aware that anyone else had it;<br>
> how<br>
> you got<br>
> > it is somewhat of a mystery since I changed it when I arrived and<br>
> don't<br>
> > remember sharing it. Am I forgetting something?<br>
> ><br>
> > -Ryan<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Nov 7, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > When you do 'su' you need supply the root (master) password.<br>
> >> I was pretty sure I got this to you guys but now that I think<br>
> >> of it maybe I didn't. Please call me (do you have the number?)<br>
> >> and I'll give you the password.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I can also set it up so that you use your own password,<br>
> >> but it requires an extra step every time you become root.<br>
> >> The advantage is that we don't have to share the root password<br>
> >> so we don't have to change it when you become a disgruntled<br>
> >> ex-employee. What do people think?<br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
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</div></div><div class="im">Karl <<a href="mailto:kop@meme.com">kop@meme.com</a>><br>
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