It's useless. If someone gets admin on your server, discontinue their access to the file an d change the password. It's a goddamn VoIP server.
Actually, the risk I was more worried about was if someone who had SSH access to the server seceratively opened the database file in vim and found passwords. If people don't know someone has their password, they can get screwed over (IE -- deleting accounts, etc).
It's still completely unjustifiable to not hash them.
By the way, 400 broke the server. I could connet, but no one else could. I changed it to 555; I'm not sure if that's the most appropriate access or not, though.
Edit --
"Hmm" on the 400 breaking the server issue. I don't think that makes much sense. Maybe it's my friend's connection, which could definitely be the case, seeing as he's on satelite internet...