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root password change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Apr 14 02:01:09 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:01:02 EDT
So, I was reviewing the skull virus in an attempt to figure out what
files should be cleaned up. Anyhow, I realized that the virus is not
year 1998 compliant (to say nothing of y2k). I can't guarantee it,
but I suspect that there is a reasonable chance of a recurrance of the
virus this coming fall. It occurs to me that what is possibly the
easiest way of preventing this is to change the default root password.
What do people think of the idea of changing the root password before,
or during the upgrade to 8.2 this summer? (Doing it this early will
allow the update to completely clean up after the virus without a
chance of re-infection.)
I seem to recall that updating the root passwprd can be done outside
of the release cycle. If so, I'd suggest doing so before early test.
Jonathon
