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

[Jonathan Neill]

Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas...

Something special about it?

> <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"?
> 
> - Bob