Root access enabling (Home Media CE)

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Contents
1 Without disassembling
2 With disassembling
2.1 How To
2.1.1 Remove Hard Disk
2.1.2 Find Disk And Mount Volumes
2.1.3 Enable SSH
2.1.4 Add A User Account And Setup Access
2.1.5 Finish Up
2.1.6 Testing
Without disassembling
1. UPDATE: none of this works on 4.x firmware. You get "404 - Page Not Found Error Message is:
"'diagnostics.html' was not found.""
1. Go to http://<IP ADDRESS OF NAS>/diagnostics.html
2. Tick checkbox to enable SSH.
3. Upon restart, login with username 'root' and password 'soho<admin password>' (All one word.
Example:'sohoabc123'. If no admin account is set- just 'soho')
With disassembling
Warning: Carrying out this procedure probably voids your warranty. You do this all
at your own risk!
The following sections explain how to enable ssh and obtain root access to your IOMega Home Media
Network CE Hard Drive. This includes removing the hard disk and making some small modifications
using a Linux (or Linux Live CD) workstation. It assumes familiarity with basic Linux usage such as
finding and mounting disks and some text editor knowledge.
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Firstly we will enable ssh then add an account for us to login with. I recommend to enable the security
mode (if not already enabled) to be able to use different users on your NAS device. This is being done
by starting the web GUI and navigating to System Security. Switch the mode to "on" and choose a
user name which will serve as the new web GUI admin user, e.g. "admin". It's a good idea to enable
network communication encryption as well for additional security.
How To
Remove Hard Disk
Firstly remove the hard disk from your Home Media CE NAS device. You can find a how-to on taking
this out here in this wiki. Put it in your other computer and boot into your Linux distribution or Live CD.
I used a copy of the Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/) Live CD as it proved to support the LVM volumes
of the Home Media CE.
Find Disk And Mount Volumes
What we are going to do is find our disk and mount it on the /mnt directory. In my case I'm looking for a
2000 GB disk. Typically I start by switching to the root user and using parted to look at all the partitions
on all the disks. On my Live CD machine it shows up as the only physical disk (which is right in my
case!):
user@debian:~$ sudo su -
root@debian:~# parted -l
Model: ATA ST32000542AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 33.6MB 21.5GB 21.5GB primary raid
2 21.5GB 2000GB 1979GB primary
The parted command found two partitions, a small 'raid' (LVM) partition and a large data partition. Now
we have a look at the LVM partitions:
root@debian:~# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/195084d1_vg/lv31f1fb79
VG Name 195084d1_vg
LV UUID BiT0fL-lbEA-rvaK-H9nQ-fuPA-Akft-cIV1Uj
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 1.80 TiB
Current LE 471804
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/md0_vg/BFDlv
VG Name md0_vg
LV UUID 58fZkD-nNrr-n04Q-8xIo-6xra-9Tt7-S0sz9O
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LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 4.00 GiB
Current LE 1024
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:1
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/md0_vg/vol1
VG Name md0_vg
LV UUID QXYKuD-V3v7-jOyp-AAPr-6D3G-dlX5-TMPmEw
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 16.00 GiB
Current LE 4095
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:2
We found three logical volumes: the data volume and two smaller ones that will prove to contain parts
of the operating system. Now we create a mountpoint and mount the second logical volume (the warning
message from the mount command can be safely ignored):
root@debian:~# mkdir /mnt/BFDlv
root@debian:~# mount /dev/md0_vg/BFDlv /mnt/BFDlv
Looking at the new file system we find two files that will prove to contain the binaries and the
configuration files of the Home Media CE:
root@debian:~# cd /mnt/BFDlv/images
root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# ls -als
total 450024
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-26 14:30 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2011-05-26 14:29 ..
439696 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 449801216 2011-06-03 08:57 apps
5132 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5242880 2011-06-02 19:47 config
5132 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5242880 1970-01-01 00:03 config.old
56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53248 1970-01-01 00:03 oem
root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# file apps
apps: Linux rev 0.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean), UUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# file config
config: Linux rev 0.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean), UUID=77242e26-8d00-484c-857d-36fc1b481933
During runtime, the file "config" will provide the /etc file system and the file "apps" will provide
the /bin, /sbin and /usr file system.
This is a good point in time to make copies of the two files (e.g. to your USB stick) because we will
alter them from this point on!
Now we create new mountpoints and mount the two file systems:
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root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# mkdir /mnt/apps
root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# mkdir /mnt/config
root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# mount -o loop apps /mnt/apps
root@debian:/mnt/BFDlv/images# mount -o loop config /mnt/config
Tadaaa! We are now ready to alter the system's configuration!
Enable SSH
In contrast to the first IOMega Home Media Drive the Cloud Edition does not contain a telnet daemon.
Instead, the developers fortunately included the SSH daemon which we just need to enable.
To enable SSH you need to modify the corresponding startup file. After making a copy of the
file /mnt/config/init.d/sshd I used the nano editor to remove all four comment symbols ('#') in the
following section of the file:
start() {
echo -n "Starting sshd: "
# /usr/sbin/sshd
# touch /var/lock/sshd
echo "OK"
}
stop() {
echo -n "Stopping sshd: "
# killall sshd
# rm -f /var/lock/sshd
echo "OK"
}
Now save this (Ctrl-O in nano) and exit (Ctrl-X).
The user "root" should not be able to log in directly via SSH because of the simple default password (we
discussed this "feature" at the beginning of this how-to). Instead, you will be able to log in with a normal
user account and switch to the user "root" afterwards. To disable the root login via SSH, edit the
file /mnt/config/ssh/sshd_config and set the parameter PermitRootLogin from "yes" to "no".
PermitRootLogin no
Next time your device starts up it will have SSH enabled!
Add A User Account And Setup Access
Now we create a user called nascentral by appending the following entry to the file /mnt/config/passwd:
nascentral:x:1000:1000:nascentral:/:/bin/sh
Save and close this file, then open /mnt/config/group and add the following line to the bottom:
nascentral:x:1000:
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Save and close the file, open /mnt/config/shadow and append the following entry:
nascentral:$1$$goRzr7Z2nQvrAoiRJGUhr/:10933:0:99999:7:::
You now have setup the user "nascentral" with the password ioadmin123
In order to be able to use the "su" command to switch from one user to another, the SETUID bit of the
"su" command has to be set:
root@debian:~# cd /mnt/apps/bin
root@debian:~# chmod u+s su
Now you will be able to login as user "nascentral" and switch to the "root" user by executing "su -". The
user "root" has the password 'soho<admin password>' (all one word. Example:'sohoabc123'. If no admin
account is set, the root password is just 'soho').
Finish Up
Now we need to unmount the NAS hard disk in our workstation and shutdown:
root@debian:~# cd /
root@debian:~# umount /mnt/apps
root@debian:~# umount /mnt/config
root@debian:~# umount /mnt/BFDlv
root@debian:~# shutdown -h now
Finally we can put the hard disk back into the NAS.
Testing
Turn on your NAS and wait for it to boot fully. Here we will be using putty (http://www.putty.org/) to
connect to the NAS and logging in as the nascentral user, then using su to get to root. You should be
able to use 'ioadmin123' as the password for the user "nascentral" and the password 'soho<admin
password>' for the user "root" (all one word. Example:'sohoabc123'. If no admin account is set, the root
password is just 'soho'):
login as: nascentral
nascentral@192.168.178.208's password:
nascentral@hmnhd-TI1S0O:/$
nascentral@hmnhd-TI1S0O:/$ su -
Password:
root@hmnhd-TI1S0O:/#
root@hmnhd-TI1S0O:/# uname -a
Linux hmnhd-TI1S0O 2.6.31.14 #1 SMP Wed Feb 2 16:59:09 EST 2011 armv6l GNU/Linux
root@hmnhd-TI1S0O:/#
root@hmnhd-TI1S0O:/# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),10(wheel)
Please remember to change the nascentral password to something different by using the command
"passwd nascentral"!
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