[svlug] Protecting and recovering from high system load?

[DzM]

Tin Le said this cool thing on 08/28/2006 10:03 PM:
 > I've been using fallback-reboot for a while.  Work great for me.
 >
 > http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/fallback-reboot/

This seems the ideal (well - nearly ideal) band-aid for me. But the docs 
are crap and I'm confused.

It says that I can use Telnet to connect and instigate the reboot. But 
the Telnet examples show it with a simple cleartext prompt. When I try 
to duplicate I'm prompted with a RIPE-160 challenge and an expected hash 
in response. I assume that the hash it wants is a RIPE-160 hash of the 
configured password.

Anyone have any clue how I generate this RIPE-160 hash that it wants? OR 
how I can configure the thing to just use the cleartext password (I know 
- that's bad; but right now I'm willing to accept it for a few days)?

Thanks
DzM