On Tuesday 20 March 2007 04:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Tuesday 2007-03-20 at 10:14 +0100, Frank Sundermeyer wrote:
> > Please read the quote from the manual again. The sentence says that
> > you should not forget your password because there is no way the
> > system will tell you this root password (unless it is a weak one
> > and you run a password cracker - but that is a different matter and
> > surely not one we will document).
>
> Then look again: the weekly security script does that automatically
> :-P

Yes, if you have "john" installed, in which case within five to seven 
days of each weekly initiation of that program, you'll know whether it 
could guess your system's passwords...


> --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.


Randall Schulz
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