Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > Talking about being locked out of mysql, the other day I found my machine doing > very strange things at things at 6:30am very morning. It started by my root > password being changed (from nothing), after which I just reinstalled. Next the > grant tables got screwed up by something and I was locked out of very db on the > server. I backed up the important db's and reinstalled, every thing seemed to > work. The next day the exact same thing happened, at the same time. > The mysql.log files listed php-nuke trying to do stuff even when it wasn't being > used or hadn't been in many days. I blew away php-nuke, which I wasn't using > anyhow and everything seems to be back to norm. > Anyone know why this might happen? Anyone had this problem? > > Thanks, > > Hereward > > >
php-nuke has a big security hole in it.. you can read up more on it on: http://lwn.net/2001/1115/security.php3 Your server sounds compromised, I'd look deep into files or better take a copy of anything important and reinstall from scratch. /Roger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
