Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 02/22/1997 11:39:59
[ All additional followups to tech-security, please... that's what it's
  for :-]

On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 08:10:56 -0500 (EST) 
 der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

 > True.  How can the pilot recover?  IMO, "no root password" is not
 > compatible with any significant degree of security; I think thorpej was
 > right here.  (I'm assuming "no root password" means ::, not :*:, for
 > the password field.)

That is correct ... "empty password field".

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