On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Suppose you'd like to generate a random pass by default after your > daemon is installed. How should you get that pass to the user? > Is it allowed to write it to a file in root's home dir? would be very wrong to write a file into root's home directory, as it is questionably in violation of FHS/policy, and also is not guaranteed to work (as /root may be part of a read-only filesystem according to debian policy). as a general rule writing out a password as part of a configuration file in /etc (following standard policy rules) is an acceptable alternative. sean --
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