aporumb
14-04-2007, 16:28
Hello all!
I will start by saying I am a very unexperienced Linux user so please don't bash me too hard.
Here is the story which I need to tell you. I want to install kfurge's firmware simply cause I liked the idea of having a console to the white box on my desk. So, being the nub that I am, I followed every single step of the install instructions. You cannot imagine the joy I had when today around 8AM (after getting up @ 6AM) I got putty to give me a console to my beautiful WL700ge
This is the point where I must say that rc.local was under "web" folder.
So, by reading the guide I had, it seemed I should close some security hole and move this rc.local to some other location. IN THE SAME TIME, I want to be able to spin down my hard drive. As you know kfurge has such rc.local files.
*I THINK* that what I did was to edit (unknowingly!!!) the file rc.local in notepad upload it to the router and move it to that location where it is not accesible from normal "sharing" interfaces.
I *think* linux is not very happy with that file which is currently there and doesn't start the telnet daemon.
Kfurge's firmware says that first will look under the "hidden" location and after will look in the "web" for rc.local
Well - it finds some file with "rc.local" in the hidden location (ofc, I put the bullshit in there!!!) and doesn't execute the normal (from "web") rc.local.
So, don't get me wrong, my box is workig and I closed the "security hole" so hard I don't know how to open it again!
What I tried was to flash the ASUS firmware and afterwards kfurge's and to repeat all the steps that got me this morning to the telnet console, but it still doesn't work.
So I come to you, like a hunble vermin the dust bowing before the mighty gods of WL700, and I ask : what can I do to get telnet again to my box? (my dreams are big, as big as having Mysql and PHP and Apache working on it).
thanks.
love,
porumb
I will start by saying I am a very unexperienced Linux user so please don't bash me too hard.
Here is the story which I need to tell you. I want to install kfurge's firmware simply cause I liked the idea of having a console to the white box on my desk. So, being the nub that I am, I followed every single step of the install instructions. You cannot imagine the joy I had when today around 8AM (after getting up @ 6AM) I got putty to give me a console to my beautiful WL700ge
This is the point where I must say that rc.local was under "web" folder.
So, by reading the guide I had, it seemed I should close some security hole and move this rc.local to some other location. IN THE SAME TIME, I want to be able to spin down my hard drive. As you know kfurge has such rc.local files.
*I THINK* that what I did was to edit (unknowingly!!!) the file rc.local in notepad upload it to the router and move it to that location where it is not accesible from normal "sharing" interfaces.
I *think* linux is not very happy with that file which is currently there and doesn't start the telnet daemon.
Kfurge's firmware says that first will look under the "hidden" location and after will look in the "web" for rc.local
Well - it finds some file with "rc.local" in the hidden location (ofc, I put the bullshit in there!!!) and doesn't execute the normal (from "web") rc.local.
So, don't get me wrong, my box is workig and I closed the "security hole" so hard I don't know how to open it again!
What I tried was to flash the ASUS firmware and afterwards kfurge's and to repeat all the steps that got me this morning to the telnet console, but it still doesn't work.
So I come to you, like a hunble vermin the dust bowing before the mighty gods of WL700, and I ask : what can I do to get telnet again to my box? (my dreams are big, as big as having Mysql and PHP and Apache working on it).
thanks.
love,
porumb