On 5/2/06, jared r r spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  i am not asserting that the compromise-pack did not have
  a precompiled sshd binary for openbsd ( the prior hop
  up the compromise chain in this case was a debianlinux ),
  but if it didn't, it may not have rooted machine B.

This is a classic case of treating the symptoms rather than curing the
disease.  The trusted [sic] user accepted an unkonwn hostkey, was only
using password-based authenticaiton, and was using the same
usernames/passwords across systems.  These things were compromise
opportunities waiting to happen -- compiler existance is irrelevant.

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