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Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password



On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:55:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 19/08/2005 alle 12.12 +1200, Nigel Jones ha scritto: 
> > Why not use pwgen or something to generate the password to
> > /etc/<pkg>/<pkg>.admin which is chmod'ed 600 to root
> > 
> > My 2 cents
> 
> I really don't like this approach, I would prefer to generate a random
> password without showing it to the system administrator, then tell him
> (through a README.Debian file) how to modify it. 
Isn't that the suggestion?  pwget>/etc/pkg/pkg.passwd.

Justin



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