On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:21:59 -0500 (CDT) "R. W. Rodolico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > Firewalls are for a stupidity shield. I had a situation where I was > cracked on one of my servers a few years ago. It was totally my fault; I > had a user I had mistakingly set up as an authorized ssh user who > shouldn't have been. Their account was cracked, then the cracker got root > access and installed a daemon that was ready to attack another server. Just curious; anyone can forget a user account, but how did the attacker get root? > R. W. "Rod" Rodolico Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
