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    Default 'Root' Password Readable in Clear Text on Ubuntu Breezy

    Major screw up by the guys over at Ubuntu.This shows that none of developers/QA even bothered to look at installation log files during development. They just assumed it be flawless.


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    There is already a fix for it

    So upgrade if your running Breezy.

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    Awfull ... how could this slip ?

    Don't they have a check list ?

    Shheessshhhh

    Its misshaps like this that makes corporations sketchy about Linux adoption and even if the big companies make booboos like this ... they have some snazzy pr twist to it and know how to "make it seem like a professional error"

    Linux is free and can't afford to make mistakes like this because coporate types would rather take crap from sombody they can sue not a bunch of almost namless programmers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gillion
    Awfull ... how could this slip ?

    Don't they have a check list ?

    Shheessshhhh

    Its misshaps like this that makes corporations sketchy about Linux adoption and even if the big companies make booboos like this ... they have some snazzy pr twist to it and know how to "make it seem like a professional error"

    Linux is free and can't afford to make mistakes like this because coporate types would rather take crap from sombody they can sue not a bunch of almost namless programmers
    Corporations can therefore use a fully supported distro that you have to pay for like suse or mandrake or redhat, that way in case of a mixup they are covered.

    it is sad though, breezy has been out for 6 months. tis tis


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    it seems that since i have changed my password since then my password isnt shown, only the initial one.

    the forums also say if the ubuntu system was installed in expert mode it would not be shown.

    and to be precise, its not actually the root password but user password shown, although on an ubuntu system or any system with sudo enabled its basically the root password.
    Last edited by megiddo; Mar 14, 2006 at 01:33 AM.
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    to quote from the ubuntu forums

    "security fix [added] to the Breezy and Dapper repos
    This is something, we [found] ... Sunday evening and its fixed within a few hours. How long does it usualy take M$ ?"

    To quote from Eric S. Raymonds Open Source paper the Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.free-soft.org/literature/...hedral-bazaar/)

    "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

    I suppose this goes for security holes too.
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