Full Disclosure: Re: some distros for Raspberry Pi have sshd enabled and default logins.

[rancor <therancor () gmail com>]

No shit Sherlock!
On Aug 4, 2012 3:38 AM, "larry Cashdollar" <larry0 () me com> wrote:

> Vapid Labs
> Larry W. Cashdollar
> 8/2/2012
>
>
> Since a some RaspberryPi users maybe unaware of the security implications of sshd I thought I should just make a note 
> of some issues.
>
> RaspberryPi image Occidentalis v0.1
>
> > From the site:
> "Adafruit <3 Raspberry Pi - especially how easy it is to hack circuits using the electronics breakout pins! But 
> sadly, the latest official
> distro "July 15 Raspbian Wheezy" did not have many of the delicious hackables built in. That's why we decided to roll 
> our own
> distribution.
>
> Our distro is based on "Wheezy" but comes with hardware SPI, I2C, one wire, and WiFi support for our wifi adapters. 
> It also has
> some things to make overall hacking easier such sshd on startup (with key generation on first boot) and  Bonjour (so 
> you can simply
> ssh raspberrypi.local from any computer on the local network)"
>
> Enables ssh by default but doesn't prompt user to change root & pi account passwords.
> http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro/occidentalis-v0-dot-1
>
> Arch Linux ARM
>
> "Arch Linux ARM is based on Arch Linux, which aims for simplicity and full control to the end user. Note that this 
> distribution may not
> be suitable for beginners."
>
> Default login of root/root with sshd enabled, doesn't prompt to change password.
> http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/archlinuxarm/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.zip
>
> If your going to enabled sshd by default please prompt the user to change the default password upon first boot. If 
> your going to connect
> these PIs to a network be sure to use secure passwords.
>
>
> http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/raspberrypi_image_security.txt
>
>
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