OLPC Part 11: How I dealt with pop-up alert boxes, sshd, and the best thing so far: nxclient

[punkwalrus]

At work, and some other sites, to connect to the wireless, you get a popup that asks for a login or password. The XO browser sucks at this. Plain and simple, it doesn't block popups: it simply doesn't render them. So when you have to log in to a wireless connection or a password site that uses a simple Javascript authentication popup, you never

Comments

sshd

[anonymous]

I'm not an expert, but you can't login as root without a password, sshd doesn't allow it, so the feature is disabled, until you change a password for root.

Re: sshd

[punkwalrus]

Hense my discovery that "PermitEmptyPasswords=no"