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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Pathos on 13 March 2006, 05:58

Title: ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2
Post by: Pathos 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 (http://digg.com/linux_unix/Administrator_root_password_readable_in_cleartext_on_Ubuntu_Breezy)

the fix is already released.

Title: Re: ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2
Post by: Dark_Me on 13 March 2006, 10:22

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

Title: Re: ubuntu achieves the seemingly impossible part 2
Post by: Refalm 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.