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[bug-sourceinstall] root password in plain text in console


From: Maxim Burgerhout
Subject: [bug-sourceinstall] root password in plain text in console
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:04:15 +0100

Hi,

I just noticed that sourceinstall spits out the root password in plain
text to it's standard output when starting a ' /bin/su root -c "
/usr/bin/make -f Makefile install ' command. Is that a feature or a
bug? ;-)

Gr.

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