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subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:

>In article <1frfh9INNil3@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:

>Well, the /etc/passwd probably wouldn't be of any use, since it most likely
>has '*'s in the place of the password. At least I hope so, in your case.

I wanted to create a bogus password file with passwords like

have
you
cracked
every
password
yet

so that you got a nice message when you unscrambled it after running crack
on the password file :)

Alternatively you set up a dummy account with a crackable password in the
ftp passwd file and when the account is logged into, you record the IP,
finger the machine and set of alarms on your local machine.  That way, you
catch the potential hackers.

Craig
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