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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:18:38 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bob88@bobj.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jonathan Neill <TYR124840@tyler.net>
Subject:   Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically
Message-ID:  <200403042318.39213.bob88@bobj.org>
In-Reply-To: <opr4cvwdzgytod5m@smtp.tyler.net>
References:  <opr4cvwdzgytod5m@smtp.tyler.net>

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On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill <Jonathan Neill 
<TYR124840@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



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