Binary file created in / with same name as root password,

[Jerry McAllister]

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> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill <Jonathan Neill=20
> > <TYR124840 at tyler.net>> wrote:
> > > Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but
> > > something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in / with
> > > the same name as my root password and I was curious as to what
> > > exactly this might be. (I always SSH into the box on a regular user
> > > then su root to do work.)
> >=20
> > That depends.  Is your password "entropy"?
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> If not, tell us what it is so we can figure out what is creating it :-)

And so we can get in to your machine and "fix" it for you.
We're all helpful people out here on the net.

////jerry

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> Kris
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