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On Ubuntu security

by andy on March 13th, 2006

Ubuntu asks for a username/password at the end of its installation. The current version (5.10) seems to store that choice world-readable and unencrypted on the computer’s harddrive. Throught using this user account an attacker might invoke the sudo command to gain root priviledges.

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[via heise]

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