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Hi all, Just a quick note to tell [K]Ubuntu users to apt-get upgrade. It seems that the Breezy installer leaves a world-readable file on the disk containing the plain-text password of your first user (which has sudo and therefore root privileges). https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/34606 A fix is available (it was released just 12 hours after discovery - beat that proprietary software companies), just upgrade. Or you could just delete the offending files, as listed in the bug report linked above. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html