[Gllug] Random password generation

[Stig Brautaset]

* 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

> remove resuce cd
> reboot
> login as root

Regards,
Stig

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