[988] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 root password (should be) in AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 26 14:54:03 2009
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:53:05 -0500
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On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:31 -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> It looks like it should be "whatever you can drop into /etc/shadow",
> which can be an md5 string (although the manpage doesn't document that).
Given the weak security requirements on the root password, a crypt
string (as used elsewhere in system/config) is fine.
> An @sys string probably isn't the right idea, since a Debathena machine
> can be any combination of {i386,amd64}_deb{3,4,5}0, and scheduled to
> keep increasing. If you'd like to make it something other than athena10,
> we can adjust the package accordingly.
There is no need to use a platform name for this case because the data
being stored is not especially platform-specific. Particularly if we
use a simple crypt string. The full shadow and passwd files stored for
Athena 9.x were very OS-dependent.
