Bob & Petter - thanks for your responses.
I should have provided more information in my original post:
* I have written the image
freedombox-unstable-free_2015-12-13_cubietruck-armhf.img to an SD
micro card
* Inserted the card into the TF reader on a metal case cubietruck
(like http://www.cubietech.com/product-detail/cubietruck-plus-metal/)
and the reboot the device
* I'm then prompted with:
"Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid freedombox ttly
freedombox login:"
... and this is where I'm stuck.
You'll have determined already that I'm pretty unfamiliar with Linux -
so I need and would appreciate more detailed assistance. Is there a
default user/password to login here? If not, I need help in
understanding how I login "via the browser at freedombox.local" as you
suggested. (In return, I'd write-up the details of getting started
with Freedombox for others who join down the road.)
Many thanks, Paul.
Quoting Bob Mottram <[email protected]>:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Bob Mottram]
I havn't tried the latest build, but I think the way to initially log
in is via the browser at freedombox.local. As far as I know the
initial account creation then allows you to use ssh with the same
login details.
Hm, perhaps we should set up the default ssh login to start a text based
web browser and allow the setup to be performed via ssh too? Not sure
it is a good idea, but would be fun to try.
But at the very least, we could try to modify the ssh setup to tell the
users trying to log in to use a web browser instead, to avoid this
confusion that have popped up a few times here on the list.
You could do like I do on Freedombone and maybe have an initial default
ssh login, but the first time the user logs in it changes the password
to something random and displays the new password so that they can copy
it into a password manager. That avoids the problem of weak passwords
and universal defaults. Also it might be an idea to have a ssh/dialog
based setup for the initial account creation.
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