just a little heads up for those NOT reading the security lists...

[paul cooke]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:41, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:19:58 +0000, paul cooke wrote:
> > this was found and patched on Sunday...
> >
> > <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-262-1>
> >
> > fantastic turnaround... unfortunately it leaves quite a bit of egg on our
> > faces and a lot of people are going to wonder if any of their users have
> > sneakily peeked and discovered the login account and password for the
> > first user created on any Ubuntu Breezy machine...
> >
> > A little word to the wise, assume the worst and promptly change the
> > password of that user account as well as apply the security update for
> > base-config & passwd
>
> I would like to take a look and find out what my log has said for the last
> several months but neither this post or the associated link indicates
> where I should look (I guess I can understand that).  Where would one
> look?  Feel free to respond by email if you feel the need.
>

<http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143334>

> Thanks.
>
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