just a little heads up for those NOT reading the security lists...

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Thanks for the heads up!

Mike

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:19:58PM +0000, paul cooke wrote:
> this was found and patched on Sunday... 
> 
> <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-262-1>
> 
> fantastic turnaround... unfortunately it leaves quite a bit of egg on our 
> faces and a lot of people are going to wonder if any of their users have 
> sneakily peeked and discovered the login account and password for the first 
> user created on any Ubuntu Breezy machine...
> 
> A little word to the wise, assume the worst and promptly change the password 
> of that user account as well as apply the security update for base-config & 
> passwd
> 
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