[K12OSN] Root password corrupts ?

[Rob Owens]

This is not a solution to your problem, but isn't it a
bad idea to remote-administer (administrate?) from a
Windows machine?  Suppose there is malware on your
Windows machine which logs your keystrokes.  You'll be
giving away your root password.  

I realize that it is possible to keep a Windows
machine relatively secure.  But you are running
Internet Explorer, which tells me that your machine
probably is not all that secure.

Just some food for thought.

-Rob

--- Barry R Cisna <brcisna at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>     HI LIST,,
> 
>     Has anyone else using K12LTSP ( v 4.2.0)
> experienced the root password "corrupting"?
>     We are running four K12LTSP,servers ( 2 each,on
> a two subnet ..network).
>     I m the only person accessing any of the
> servers,,,and I've {sort of},,,am thinking the
> password corruption,
>     may possibly do to  using Webmin to do a few
> tasks, and it seems this happens when using MS
> Internet Explorer
>     ( wouldnt you know it)!..
>     A couple time,s i've simply "looked" at some
> config files,,through Webmin,,,,and after
> exiting,,,then trying to VNC back into the same
> server, from my client box the root password,,,no
> longer works?
>     Of course the root password also no longer lets
> me log into the Webmin interface.
>     I m using the lastest version of Webmin 1.180.
>     ALso,,it seems this has happened when I've had
> two or three IE /Webmin,pages open at the same time,
> looking at the four different servers,,, at the same
> time from my client Windows box?
>     Ive had to reformat a few times do to this very
> problem! ( ugh)...
>     I had know way of correcting the "trashed"
> password..
>     Tryed to do a "manual" copy of the
> passwd,gshadow,shadow,group file from another "good"
> root password,server, but no joy,:(.
> 
>     Just wondering if anyone else has experienced
> this,,or if I m worng on the Webmin,"theory"..
> 
>     Thanks....
> 
>     Barry CIsna 
> RR1 Box 213
> Gladstone, IL 61437
> 
> brcisna at frontiernet.net>
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