HP Unix Root Password

From: Russ (vacant_z_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: 25 Jun 2004 06:59:42 -0700

I have a HP-UX box running in trusted mode, therefore all passwords in
/etc/passwd are represented by * and are stored in an encrypted db....
all of the entries are stored like this except for ROOT which is the
only entry which has an encrypted string representing the password...
which I think is really BAD, but was wondering if there were
legitiamate reasons for doing this

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