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Re: [cobalt-security] pro's and cons of not letting GUI change ro ot password
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] pro's and cons of not letting GUI change ro ot password
- From: "Jelmer Jellema" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:55:32 +0100
- Organization: Spin in het Web (www.spininhetweb.nl)
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
From: "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > AFAIK, the button will reset both passwords.
> > -Mat
> > _______________________________________________
>
> the button Locks the root password!
> But when you change admin password in the GUI it changes root.
But not if you, as I originally proposed, hacked that function out of the
admin lib..... So if you would want to do that, you'd better not forget the
root password, because the button would not work any more (unless you also
changed pwreset as proposed...)
Jelmer