disabling root and olpc passwords

[Mitch Bradley]

Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> subbukk wrote:
>   
>> sftp and scp both require receiver to share login password with sender. nc 
>> doesn't. It just reads/writes bytestreams from/to network sockets. E.g. You 
>> can transfer sub-directories across machines with :
>>   olpc at 192.168.1.2 $ nc -lp 9999 | tar xzvf - ./src
>>
>>   olpc at 192.168.1.1 $ tar czvf - ./src | nc -q 10 192.168.1.2 9999
>>
>> without exchanging passwords.
>>     
>
> It's extremely cool, and good for hardcore users, but most people don't 
> have the level of understanding needed to use netcat effectively.  Plus 
> ftpd/sshd are standard daemons; netcat can be daemonized too but it 
> requires some hand-coding.
>   

Uh, well ssh/scp is not exactly the naive user's best friend as far as 
ease of setup.

> -- Gary
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