Author Topic: ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2  (Read 1029 times)

Pathos

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ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2
« on: 13 March 2006, 05:58 »
and totally screws up existing linux security measures

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Administrator_root_password_readable_in_cleartext_on_Ubuntu_Breezy

the fix is already released.

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Re: ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2
« Reply #1 on: 13 March 2006, 10:22 »
All I needed to read was the header. Anything else we should know about?
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Re: ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2
« Reply #2 on: 13 March 2006, 11:02 »
This reminds me off our old UBB forum that used to save passwords in cleartext too ;)

But this is a very sloppy bug. But the best thing about open source is that it's fixed that quickly.