Admin password in clear text on Ubuntu Breezy

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:17 pm

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143334
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Administrato ... ntu_Breezy

In the "/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat" file, the administrator password is viewable in any text editor. That's quite a big security hole for Ubuntu.

mrben · Post by **mrben** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:35 am

Which has been fixed.

Apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (or similar in Synaptic) will resolved the issue.