[Arm-netbook] Mysteries of Lemote Yeeloong MIPS netbook

[Benson Mitchell]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:13 PM,  <freebirds at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012, at 01:40 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>
>> > Init: Enter runlevel 2
>> > Starting OpenBSD secure shell server: sshd
>> > So it's running sshd by default. Just about all UNIXes do. Expected,
>> normal, and nothing to worry about if you use reasonably secure
>> passwords. But there's nothing stopping you from disabling it (check the
>> documentation for your links distro on how).
>
> Yeeloong has preinstalled a Chinese variant of Debian, not preinstalled
> OpenBSD. Bizarre a Debian distribution would run an OpenBSD by default.
No, as Gordan said, it's the opposite of bizarre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH

For historical reasons, OpenBSD's implementation was quite successful
early on, so there's little incentive for Debian, Redflag, or anyone
else to maintain their own ssh implementation; it's now the standard
ssh service practically everyone uses.

>> > as root run etc/rc2.d/Sl9hpo2setup
>> > No hpoj devices have been configured.
>>
>> No idea what this is. HP OfficeJet something or other, maybe?
>
> I think you are correct that hpoj refers to HP OfficeJet. This is
> mentioned in the DMESG message. However, my printer is in storage. No
> printer is connected.
Yes, but the officejet software, like the ssh server, is installed for
the people who _do_ have a printer that needs it -- because like you,
the average user doesn't know how to enable or disable services. If it
is enabled everywhere, it has little impact on users who don't need
it; if it were disabled everywhere, it would have major impact for
users who do need it.

I don't have a yeeloong, but a little searching suggests the default
debian-derived distro has root access through sudo; you should be able
to manage services like any debian system. I'd recommend blowing it
away and installing Debian, but it'll still have sshd running by
default.

To turn sshd off in either case, you'd use something like:
# sysv-rc-conf ssh off

For more reading, you could start here:
http://wiki.debian.org/RunLevel


Benson Mitchell