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A wee caveat - the freeware WAR-ftp server (most versions)

From: mnemonix () GLOBALNET CO UK (Mnemonix)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 05:43:10 +0100


Hey all,

An associate of mine had a problem recently whereby he had forgotten the password for the sysadmin account for  the 
freeware WAR-ftp server for the Win32 platform. On looking into the problem to see if I could
discover his password I found that the waruser.dat file contains the password in clear text. So just in case - anyone 
who uses the same password for their NT Administrator account, should probably change one of them - preferably the 
Administrator account's password. I don't know if this is a "known" issue - but if not - you know now ;-)


l8r,
Mnemonix

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