Down the IT Rabbit Hole

Kind of as an update to my  Gain SSH access to the Buffalo LinkStation 421e  article, I realized SFTP support wasn't setup correctly. In order to do this, I had to: SSH into the LinkStation. If you haven't enabled SSH access,  here's how . vi /etc/sshd_config On the line that starts with Subsystem, replace /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server with /usr/lib/sftp-server. Save and quit vi. Run: /etc/init.d/sshd.sh restart That's it.

So it turns out after I setup my LinkStation it seems guest access to Samba and AFP doesn't seem to work. The only way for me to solve this is to get sshd turned on. It just so happens that there is a tool called acp_commander that allows to send shell commands to the LinkStation (originally for firmware purposes I'm sure). Besides being a huge security hole, it serves its purpose. Things to note: I am using 1.31-0.92 firmware telnets does not exist on this firmware version, so we can't use that for access. I could unzip the firmware (the zip password exists online) and repackage the firmware, but I just didn't want to go through that process. The commands I'm explaining are for the GUI version of ACPCommander, not the command line java version. Strings would have to be escaped differently for the command line. Steps: Obtain the UI version of ACP Commander from here . The administrator password in the GUI should be the 'admin' password you hav...