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How to tell user default random pass for daemon?
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| Olaf van der Spek 2005-07-06, 5:53 pm |
| Hi,
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?
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| John Hasler 2005-07-06, 5:53 pm |
| > 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?
Chrony puts it in a file in /etc/chrony.
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| Goswin von Brederlow 2005-07-06, 5:53 pm |
| John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
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> Chrony puts it in a file in /etc/chrony.
And protects it from being read by unauthorized persons.
MfG
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| sean finney 2005-07-06, 5:53 pm |
| 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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| Andrew Suffield 2005-07-08, 5:54 pm |
| 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?
Mail it to root.
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| sean finney 2005-07-08, 5:54 pm |
| On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:30:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
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> Mail it to root.
that's a horrible idea. root's mail often is forwarded, which then
puts the password on the wire, likely in the clear.
sean
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