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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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