publish a user & passwd: $1000 hack reward!

[Steve Rudd <srudd@bible.ca>]

Hi! Steve Rudd with more "disconsolate mumbling" (great term <g>)

So if I did publish a user name and password (not that I would) that had 
pop 3 and ftp access with no shell access and was restricted to public html 
directories, is that a risk to the rest of the system? A standard public 
box has hundreds of public users and passwords, so there is really very 
little difference between the $1000 contest of publishing the user name and 
passwd and not.

Is this not secure?

Steve

> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:43:55 -0500, Steve Rudd mumbled disconsolately:
> >
> > >  Why I could even post them on my root page and taunt
> > >  hackers to try and break in with them! I could even offer a 1000 
> prize for
> > >  anyone who can crack and hack their way in!
> >
> > "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
> >
> > Proverbs xvi. 18.
> >
> hehheh, LinuxPPC did this awhile ago, setup a contest to crack thier
> default installation.  anyone who did so would get the box (a beige
> Apple G3) Debian now has a beige Apple G3 serving as a build daemon (i
> think its still a buildd) thanks to drow ;-)