disabling root and olpc passwords

[subbukk]

On Sunday 13 Jan 2008 4:48:08 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> The 2008-1-12 OLPC News says "... so that we can finally disable the
> root and olpc passwords".
>
> The way I have my G1G1 system set up (I have no wireless) I *need*
> to ftp in.  For that, I have set a password for olpc.  It would be
> ok with me to set up a different user+password for ftp, but would
> *not* be ok for password support to be "disabled".
Mikus,

Just what exactly do you need ftp for? There are much better alternatives for 
transfering files.

You may want to use nc (from netcat package). It is smaller, easier and has 
none of the user/password/double-port stuff.

Subbu