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ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2

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Pathos:
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.

Dark_Me:
All I needed to read was the header. Anything else we should know about?

Refalm:
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.

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