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

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Mar 5 05:11:50 PST 2004


On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:27:04AM -0600, Jonathan Neill wrote:
> Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas...
> 
> Something special about it?

Only that it's a spectacularly bad password that happens to coincide
with an unrelated FreeBSD file.  I hope your new root password isn't
"COPYRIGHT" or "kernel" :-)

Kris
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