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Security bulletin and general update

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Well we boxed up 50 or so orders today but the post office is closed so they are on the way tomorrow. 


Also a user has pointed out the the sshd daemon is installed on our image by default.  We had this on our testing images because it was so handy for testing.  So given that the default password is easy to guess/discover for these devices it presents a security risk.  I recommend you either remove ssh with 'sudo apt-get remove ssh', change the default password or delete the Linaro account if you are not using it.  Since sshd isn't in its own package you will be losing ssh as well.  I haven't looked into this but the daemon can probably be disabled easly while leaving the package in place but I wanted to post it up as soon as it came to my attention.


Thanks go to Mr. Hjortland for that tip.

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  • Michael R. Zboray
    Michael R. Zboray Wednesday, 20 February 2013

    Neal,

    Thanks for the update.
    Are these 50 pre-orders or perks?
    TNX! Looking forward to getting my linux tab.

    Mike

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