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Subject: ftpd and passwd files
From: hobbit @ babyoil . ftp . com (*Hobbit*)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 11:22:44 -0500
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

Hmmph.  A long time ago, I simply created something like

	root:fuck-you:0:0:God:x:x
	hobbit:go-away:555:555:x:x
	ftp:and-stay-out:22:22:x:x

in ftp's /etc/passwd, and that just so "ls" would look nicer.  We just got
flamed for this by someone who thought it was "unprofessional", in fact; my
only answer was something like "well, what do you want with our PASSWD FILE in
the first place?!"

Perhaps putting the crypt-strings for various obscene messages in instead
would have been more subtle, but I really don't *care* if someone goes
somewhere they maybe shouldn't and steps on a piece of barbed wire.

_H*

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