Huge security problem with Breezy

[David A' Rebel]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:04, Claudia Ringwald wrote:
> Am Montag, 13. März 2006 04:19 schrieb Mike Hudson:
> > I apologize if this is not the right forum for this issue, but I
> > think it's pretty important -- Every Ubuntu user should be warned.
> >
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143334
> >
> > Users have reported Breezy Kubuntu and Ubuntu both have this problem.
>
> < .... snip ... >
>
> > I imagine that this would only affect you if you installed from
> > Breezy.  If you installed from Hoary and upgraded to Breezy, you
> > probably wouldn't have the problem.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I think your are right about this.
> I did upgrade my Hoary-installation to Breezy and my password was NOT in
> this file. But nevertheless I did delete the file.
>
> Thanks for the information!
>
> Claudia


 Deleting a file on the say so of one person and a post in a forum is a little 
drastic, reminds me of the socalled bugbear virus that had people deleting an 
essential file from their windows directory a couple of years ago.