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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:24:22 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Domas Mituzas <domas.mituzas@delfi.lt>
Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA>,
	mudman <mudman@R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /etc/pwd.db
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Domas Mituzas <domas.mituzas@delfi.lt> wrote:
>
>actually if you keep some fake MD5 strings in $FTPROOT/etc/passwd it would
>be a nice trap for all wannabe's (and also will point out totally stupid
>clients ;-)

I remember once finding a password file on an FTP server which
included a message in the salts taunting would-be hackers...

Tony.
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