From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 05:26:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B55716A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:26:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net (mtaw6.prodigy.net [64.164.98.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8F343D2D for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (7448a2c16eb0f0fe7f3c094af49e5754@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203]) by mtaw6.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i25DPka3005170; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:25:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6CC1651844; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:26:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:26:45 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20040305132645.GA15134@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200403042318.39213.bob88@bobj.org> <000c01c402ad$2ae03130$6401a8c0@jon> <20040305131149.GC14874@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305131149.GC14874@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Jonathan Neill Subject: Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:26:46 -0000 --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:11:49AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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? >=20 > 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" :-) You know, there's something deeply ironic about using the low-entropy word "entropy" for what should be a high-entropy password, then reducing the entropy still further by posting to a public mailing list with a clue to what it is. Moreover, your confusion surrounds the /entropy file, which is used by the system to store high-quality entropy data for seeding purposes. :-) Kris0`&$31U2A?7+_0)&5SQ%,HK2G-+[;T_DP),)[/#N\WP2.VP2P,EME8BZDGF --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFASIAVWry0BWjoQKURAmL0AJ4kxLglr2JWLsjSlZUy7rGhwbqpOQCeI7zM Q66CcSQrkBg078xCJvm6WkA= =kllZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--