On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:30:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Suppose you'd like to generate a random pass by default after your > > daemon is installed. How should you get that pass to the user? > > Is it allowed to write it to a file in root's home dir? > > Mail it to root.
that's a horrible idea. root's mail often is forwarded, which then
puts the password on the wire, likely in the clear.
sean
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