Has this been resolved?
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Aug 18 19:13:16 UTC 2007
cj wrote:
> John Dangler wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know if this has been resolved?
>> Was their any residual fallout from it?
>>
>> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/570?ref=rss
>>
> i think the storing passwords in clear text part was fixed. some people
> in the list said it was
It's really ancient history. There were two fixes. The first was to not
store the actual password in the install log, and the second was for the
next release to actually make sure that that install log (the previous one
with the clear text password) wasn't still around.
--
derek
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