Binary file created in / with same name as root password,
seemingly sporadically
Bob Johnson
bob88 at bobj.org
Thu Mar 4 20:18:44 PST 2004
On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill <Jonathan Neill
<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
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