<troll> I thought Debian (and derived systems) were all about openness. Why not make the password open too? :) </troll>
-- William Sutton On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Ben Pitzer wrote: > My question is why it's storing an unencrypted password in file space at > all, at any point. Seems like a Bad Idea (tm) to me, even if it is only > during the install. > > Regards, > Ben Pitzer > > On 3/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:04:06AM -0500, Magnus wrote: > > > The root password from the first user registred by Breezy can be found > > by > > > any user by reading the file /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat > > > > Pretty ugly. And of course, fixed [0]. > > > > [0] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-262-1 > > -- > > Daniel T. Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GPG key: www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc > > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
