[Savannah-hackers] Re: address@hidden: gnudist:/home/www/html/server/standards/README.savannah.html -- recent changes]

[Leonard H. Tower Jr.]

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   Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:29:28 +0100 (CET)
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   Leonard H. Tower Jr. writes:
    > Hi Loic,
    > 
    > Just wanted to note that publicizing the location of the MySQL
    > database on www.gnu.org increases the security risk of some cracker or
    > vandal geting the Savannah database and running a dictionary attack
    > against it.

    You're right. I fixed the document and moved that bit of information to
   fp:/gd/gnuorg/sysadmin/sysadmin.texi.

Your call.  This is one of those borderline cases where the size of
the risk isn't clear.

Do gnudist:/home/www/html/server/standards/README.savannah.html and
ftp:/gd/gnuorg/sysadmin/sysadmin.texi cross reference one another?
The usefulness for newcomers seems much greater then the security
risk.

           Thanks,

Most welcome!

peace -len