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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