I'm sorry I did not respond to this bug earlier. I missed Chuck's reply in April. Kern is absolutely right, this is a packaging problem inherited from Debian.
I didn't want to make the problem bigger than it acutally is. People who are using Bacula should be aware of the fact that the software uses a shared secret to communicate between the different components of the software package. But Joe Average who runs Bacula with the default settings coming from the .deb package will find himself left with a shared secret common to all Ubuntu Bacula installations and there are no indications whatsoever in the READMEs or in the configuration files which indicate this weakness. Depending on your point of view, you might consider this a serious security issue. ** Changed in: bacula (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- password in bacula-fd.conf is not auto-generated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222558 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bacula in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs