[Gllug] Random password generation

[David Irvine]

Stig Brautaset wrote:

>* David Irvine <co2cool at yahoo.com> spake thus:
>
>>>>And of course you make sure you have  a different password for lilo
>>>>than you have  for root, its amazing how many people who seem to be
>>>>fairly competent believe that its perfectly fine to go round
>>>>sticking the root password unencrypted in world readable files.
>>>>
>>>chmod 600 /etc/lilo.conf
>>>
>>insert bootable linuxcare cd,
>>reboot
>>cat /etc/lilo.conf |grep password
>>
>
>The above qualifies to the `useless use of cat' award ;) I am sure you
>actually meant:
>
>grep password /etc/lilo.conf
>
There was actually some logic in  that, i  had intended to mention 
something about cat not unencrypting files,  i can't remember if i 
edited it out or not.  

I actually find myself using cat foo |grep bar sometimes,  don't know 
why.    I guess its some inner need to type more.

Cheers

David


>
>>remove resuce cd
>>reboot
>>login as root
>>
>
>Regards,
>Stig
>




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