[CLUE-Tech] 'Scuse me, but why did the RH7.2 upgrade change my root password.

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Jed S. Baer (thag at frii.com) wrote:
> I'm somewhat more aggravated now, as I'm discovering certain services
> won't start, cuz root isn't the only thing in my passwd/group settings it
> went and munged. Why can't RedHat figure that maybe I made changes to my
> system cuz I wanted it that way? Does SuSe do stupid stuff like this?
> 
Shameless plug for my favorite distro:

Debian is pretty good at marking config file as config files, and
preserving them across updates.  If it ever wants to clobber one, it
asks, giving you the option of saying no (with no as the default, even).

Tim
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