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

[Kris Kennaway]

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 
> <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.)
> 
> That depends.  Is your password "entropy"?

If not, tell us what it is so we can figure out what is creating it :-)

Kris
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