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Re: Bug#711251: root+KDC password in clear in /var/cache/debconf/



On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:35:23PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> package: debian-edu-config
> severity: serious
> x-debbugs-cc: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
> version: 1.704
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2013, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> > > > Don't know if it was the case before, but now the root password entered
> > > > during installation is visible in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat and
> > > > /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old (as KDC and LDAP passwords).
> > > That is very strange.  The values are supposed to be wiped out at the
> > > end of the installation, and their type 'password' which is handled
> > > specially by debconf and not stored in the "public" database.
> > /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat is clean, but templates.dat and
> > templates.dat-old contain both: first-user-password and root pw (as KDC
> > and LDAP pw.
> 
> Filing as serious bug, so we dont forget.
 
Don't know if the bug is present in version 1.704, too. This definitly 
is the case for d-e-config, version 1.705, contained in the latest 
netinst iso image (as of May, 5th).

Wolfgang

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