On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:31:14PM +1000, Simon Bowden wrote:
> cleartext). Unless someone is regularly keying in the root password and 
> they're capturing that somehow, then they'll need to break they crypt to 
> get it... (right?). Which seems a little unfair.

They can pwn all of the machines in the shop and use them as a distributed
cluster to brute-force the root password.

- Matt
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