Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 06:27:04 -0600 From: "Jonathan Neill" <TYR124840@tyler.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically Message-ID: <000c01c402ad$2ae03130$6401a8c0@jon> References: <opr4cvwdzgytod5m@smtp.tyler.net> <200403042318.39213.bob88@bobj.org>
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Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... Something special about it? > <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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