This post was written to spare you the hours I spent digging up all this information about Drobo NAS Root Password failures and troubleshooting.Īs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Now that I have figured out this issue with my NAS, it’s more in line with how I manage my other Linux systems. Some places on the Internet suggest that reverse engineering binaries in a. Obviously, the fun begins when the backup is encrypted file command says it’s type is data. While these Drobo firmware enhancements were fantastic from a security perspective, they did force me to change the way I had logged in and operated before. Access to the device is now only through SSH (though your current Telnet session will continue until you log out). Apparently, a configuration backup file you can download (and then restore) from Web UI contains flags for dropbear (small SSH server) that can enable typical usage of SSH. After this, I was able to sudo, using the Drobo built-in version of sudo. The fix? I logged into the Drobo Dashboard and uninstalled the DroboPorts version of sudo. A continuation of the point above, but in. Authorized keys can be provided through a script owned by root. mnt/drobofs/shares/droboapps/sudo/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit setĪfter mucking around with it via ssh for a while, it occurred to me that this only started happening, after I modified the $PATH to include my DroboPorts apps. Embed and control a Dropbear SSH server inside of perl.
DROPBEAR SSH OWNED BY FULL
I run some unofficial Drobo applications from Droboports on my NAS, and everything was awesome until I modified the $PATH for my Admin user, so I could use DroboPort apps without typing in the full path every time. Nice to see some thought put into the security piece.
If you need to do “root” commands, you’ll want to use “sudo”. Drobo had disabled root logins via SSH, a move I totally support! Now you must login as “Admin” with your Drobo’s Admin password. The alert indicates a host has been infiltrated by an attacker, who is using the host to make calls for files, as a call-home vector for other malware-infected networks, for shuttling traffic back to bot owners, etc. After some research, I realized that Drobo had greatly expanded the official DroboApps, including the remote access tools.Īfter a firmware update, your Drobo Root Password may stop working.
DROPBEAR SSH OWNED BY UPDATE
After the update I attemtped to login and the Drobo Root Password wasn’t working. It turns out that Drobo had put some thought and support into remote access.Īfter may years, I finally updated the firmware on Drobo 5N.
After a fairly recent firmware update, my Drobo Root Password stopped working for SSH.
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