hey shish, On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 02:40 +0000, Shish wrote: > The package I noticed this in was nagios-mysql; the first install I did > created a nice, long, random looking password. Then I scrapped the > install and redid things from scratch, resulting in: > > #xsddb_host= > #xsddb_port= > xsddb_database=nagiosmysql > xsddb_username=nagios-mysql > xsddb_password=8
thanks for reporting this. someone brought it up on irc last week as
well, and i'm fairly certain i know the cause of it this. the password
generation reads from /dev/urandom until N alhpanumeric characters have
been found, but if there's a newline in the middle it will truncate the
output, resulting in what you see there.
i'll see about implementing an alternate version that ensures passwords
will be >= 8 characters long.
sean
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