Your message dated Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:16:41 -0700 with message-id <20160626181641.ga3...@qor.donarmstrong.com> and subject line Re: Bug#828677: tech-ctte: user/root password occasionally appear in clear text when rebooting from CLI has caused the Debian Bug report #828677, regarding tech-ctte: user/root password occasionally appear in clear text when rebooting from CLI to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tech-ctte Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Before version 8 jessie, I frequently rebooted/shutdown from the CLI...<shutdown -r now> When I tried doing so since installing version 8 ( I think I was up to 8.3?) I would get varying results: mostly the machine would "Hang" for a minute or so & then power down; but occassionally it would reboot. After the minute of hanging - a flashing little white line in the top Left Hand Side of a black screen - I would get unformatted messages across the screen followed occasionally by my password in clear text before the (tty?) login...On one occasion, it was my root password! I experimented with several suggestions from various forums: <init 0>; <init 6>; <systemctl [command?]>...but got confused. So I went to the Devuan site & downloaded it because in my gut, I believed that the problems were caused by systemd? I think systemd "has its finger in too many pies"! i.e.: it is involved in too many processes beyond the initialisation of the computer. This seems to me to go against the general grain of the basic Unix/Linux philosophy: (my paraphrase): Do ONE thing- Keep it SIMPLE - do it RIGHT. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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--- Begin Message ---Unless you're typing in the root password or have a custom script which has the root password stored, there's no place that the root password is stored in an unhashed form in a Debian system. [Furthermore, there's no need to store it.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law
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