[Gllug] Random password generation

[David Irvine]

Alain Williams wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 07:14:53PM +0100, David Irvine wrote:
>
>>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
remove resuce cd
reboot
login as root




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