Timo Neuvonen wrote:
>>need to. The random passwords generated at install time are just that:
>>randomly generated passwords, and nothing more. However, you can use
>>whatever you want as Bacula passwords.
>>
>
> A further question: are passwords set by random only installations made from
> tarball and compiled by myself, or does an install from a pre-compiled rpm
> binary package (or some other package) also provide unique passwords? Or are
> they by default all the same for all the installations from the same
> package? All the documentation is very much based on source tarball install.
Actually, having never installed from a binary package, I don't know.
The safe procedure, and what you should always do, is assign your own
passwords. The random generation procedure is there simply so that even
people who don't understand that part have SOMETHING, and with some
expectation that it's not the same as everyone else's.
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