[vox] Ubuntu: "Administrator root password readable in cleartext on
Breezy"
Bill Kendrick
nbs at sonic.net
Mon Mar 13 23:04:14 PST 2006
In case folks haven't seen it here. (I saw it mentioned in SacLUG)
Bug #34606 in Ubuntu: "Administrator root password readable in
cleartext on Breezy"
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606
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
a quick
grep -r rootpassword /var
shows that the rootpassword is forgotten in cleartext by the installer
on several occations
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