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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