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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:11:49 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jonathan Neill <TYR124840@tyler.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically
Message-ID:  <20040305131149.GC14874@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c402ad$2ae03130$6401a8c0@jon>
References:  <opr4cvwdzgytod5m@smtp.tyler.net> <200403042318.39213.bob88@bobj.org> <000c01c402ad$2ae03130$6401a8c0@jon>

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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:27:04AM -0600, Jonathan Neill wrote:
> Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas...
>=20
> Something special about it?

Only that it's a spectacularly bad password that happens to coincide
with an unrelated FreeBSD file.  I hope your new root password isn't
"COPYRIGHT" or "kernel" :-)

Kris

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