https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/34606
The root password from the first user registred by Breezy can be found by any user by reading the file /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat a quick grep -r rootpassword /var shows that the rootpassword is forgotten in cleartext by the installer on several occations /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: mypasswd /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: mypasswd /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: mypasswd /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: mypasswd -- "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands…may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." —James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
