John Hasler wrote, On 10/19/2006 01:08 AM:
Create a password on the fly during installation and mail it to root.
RPMs are often installed before mail is configured. And mails get lost. And...
I would rather write such a password to a readable-by-root-only file...But I doubt that we can do better than the Red Hat engineers who makes RPMs for a living...
/Mads