Got Root?

The Openroot project has started. Evidently, they have opened up root on a FreeBSD 4.1 machine to pretty much everyone. They have disabled any access to connect out from the machine, but you can connect to it on several key ports (like telnet on port 30 and ircd on port 6667). They have taken some pretty heavy precautions (like jailing it, a feature that was introduced with FreeBSD 4.x).(Update 11/24, BSD-Pat) kaworu has decided to use OpenBSD 2.7 instead. Openroot will probably be down until later tonight.

Its creator, known by "kaworu" on Openroot, is optimistic, although he's already been plagued by some immature users, he is pretty sure that, because of the restrictions, it will be a good sandbox and learning environment for all those who want to be systems administrators.

He also thinks it would be a good learning experience in security for himself, and some others who are willing to help out.

I wish them good luck!