just a little heads up for those NOT reading the security lists...
Kenneth P. Turvey
kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com
Tue Mar 14 01:41:13 UTC 2006
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:19:58 +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
I would like to take a look and find out what my log has said for the last
several months but neither this post or the associated link indicates
where I should look (I guess I can understand that). Where would one
look? Feel free to respond by email if you feel the need.
Thanks.
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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>
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