Chris Francy <francyci@cnw.com> writes: > There is at least one package in Debian that requires you to put > sensitive information in /root. The mysql server package needs you to > have a .my.cnf in the /root if you want the logs to rotate. The > my.cnf contains the clear text version of the root password to the > database. This is a bug. The file should be in /etc (if, as it sounds like, it's a system-wide configuration file).