Huge security problem with Breezy

[Claudia Ringwald]

Am Montag, 13. März 2006 04:19 schrieb Mike Hudson:
> I apologize if this is not the right forum for this issue, but I
> think it's pretty important -- Every Ubuntu user should be warned.
>
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143334
>
> Users have reported Breezy Kubuntu and Ubuntu both have this problem.
< .... snip ... >

> I imagine that this would only affect you if you installed from
> Breezy.  If you installed from Hoary and upgraded to Breezy, you
> probably wouldn't have the problem.

Hi Michael, 

I think your are right about this. 
I did upgrade my Hoary-installation to Breezy and my password was NOT in this 
file. But nevertheless I did delete the file. 

Thanks for the information! 

Claudia