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[cobalt-users] root password stored in plain-text?
- Subject: [cobalt-users] root password stored in plain-text?
- From: "Joseph Lundgren" <josephl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Sep 25 13:02:02 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Say, is this normal??
[root admin]# cat /usr/man/man1/version.1.gz
_SSHD_ USER:root PASS:**MY_FRICKIN_ROOT_PASSWORD!!!!**
(where **MY_FRICKIN_ROOT_PASSWORD!!!!** is my real honest-to-goodness
root/admin password in PLAIN TEXT!!)
Have I been pwned?
Cobalt RaQ4r
fully updated as per sun official updates
sshd version OpenSSH_3.4p1
Joseph Lundgren
System Administrator
josephl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Nu-World Communications
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