9.2.0.1.943 /usr/local/lib folder

[Dread]

Hi !

I accidentally deleted the /usr/local/lib folder and I can't use scp/cp/whatever to get the files back where they were (not enough space). Indeed, my USB stick is very small (256MB) and adding nmap didn't help. Now I'm stuck with a server that has one open SSH session and SMB shares working for now.

Can I shutdown the server and reformat the USB drive with a fresh embedded image OR replace core system files only and then reload my config file ? Or am I better backing up my data now and retransfer it once the system has been reinstalled ?

Thanks a lot.

[crowi]

Can I shutdown the server and reformat the USB drive with a fresh embedded image

Yes, save your config file first and then you can restore the cinfiguration on the new system easily

[Dread]

Thing is, I don't know if the last two config files I have origin from this version of n4f or the last one. Any way to extract the config file through the SSH session ?

Thanks for your reply.

[b0ssman]

if you installed the embedded version just reboot and the files will be there again.

if you didnt install the embedded version, that would be very bad for the usb stick

[Dread]

Indeed, after rebooting things went normal again. But it seems nas4free had some sort of "old, safe config" which was somewhere on the USB key which the OS then used to restore its state. This is confirmed by the fact that I could only log in using my older password.

Also, something that bothers me is the fact that the config.xml file contains all passwords in cleartext, which is kinda scary. Isn't there any way to use a hash of the passwords instead of storing them in clear ? The OS would then compute then hash of a password entered on the login page (or SSH/FTP/SFTP/whatever session) and, if it equals to what the config.xml contains, access is granted. Good hash algorithms are, in my opinion and according to my research work on the topic, Whirlpool and SHA-3 (backdoors ?).

[crowi]

the password issue was just discussed recently
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6529&p

[Dread]

Didn't see that, thanks for the link.