Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +0200, LeVA wrote: >> I always compile the latest stable 2.4 kernel with loadable modules >> disabled, but I don't apply any kernel patches. >> Is this "safe", or I must apply some security patch? > > None of the rece

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +0200, LeVA wrote: >> I always compile the latest stable 2.4 kernel with loadable modules >> disabled, but I don't apply any kernel patches. >> Is this "safe", or I must apply some security patch? > > None of the rece

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > I always compile the latest stable 2.4 kernel with loadable modules > disabled, but I don't apply any kernel patches. > Is this "safe", or I must apply some security patch? None of the recent kernel-level vulnerabilities have required module

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > I always compile the latest stable 2.4 kernel with loadable modules > disabled, but I don't apply any kernel patches. > Is this "safe", or I must apply some security patch? None of the recent kernel-level vulnerabilities have required module

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Tim Nicholas
On 04/11/04 21:15, LeVA wrote: 2004. április 11. 06:21 dátummal Noah Meyerhans ezt írta: On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: Only as ftp. But there have been a number of locally exploitable kernel vulnerabilities fairly recently, and an attacker could use one of these to obt

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread LeVA
2004. április 11. 06:21 dátummal Noah Meyerhans ezt írta: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > Only as ftp. But there have been a number of locally exploitable > kernel vulnerabilities fairly recently, and an attacker could use one > of these to obtain root access once they

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Tim Nicholas
On 04/11/04 21:15, LeVA wrote: 2004. április 11. 06:21 dátummal Noah Meyerhans ezt írta: On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: Only as ftp. But there have been a number of locally exploitable kernel vulnerabilities fairly recently, and an attacker could use one of these to obtain

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread LeVA
2004. április 11. 06:21 dátummal Noah Meyerhans ezt írta: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > Only as ftp. But there have been a number of locally exploitable > kernel vulnerabilities fairly recently, and an attacker could use one > of these to obtain root access once they

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > I am just curious, that if my proftpd runs as user 'ftp', than the one > who uses this vulnerability could only run arbitrary code as user ftp, > or as root? Only as ftp. But there have been a number of locally exploitable kernel vulnerabi

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > I am just curious, that if my proftpd runs as user 'ftp', than the one > who uses this vulnerability could only run arbitrary code as user ftp, > or as root? Only as ftp. But there have been a number of locally exploitable kernel vulnerabi

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread LeVA
2004. április 10. 18:09 dátummal [EMAIL PROTECTED] ezt írta: > Proftp was vulnerable to this one: > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/405348 but I don't consider it a high > risk, because someone would have to upload the file. The passwords > were reasonably secure. > Hi! I am just curious, that if m

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread LeVA
2004. április 10. 18:09 dátummal [EMAIL PROTECTED] ezt írta: > Proftp was vulnerable to this one: > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/405348 but I don't consider it a high > risk, because someone would have to upload the file. The passwords > were reasonably secure. > Hi! I am just curious, that if m

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread sciencewhiz
>When was the last time you could login? Have you done any changes since then? > >Try copying the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to a test machine and see if it >lets you login then (IE test if it is actually a password change or something >broken in PAM etc). There was a total of 5 hours betwe

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread sciencewhiz
>When was the last time you could login? Have you done any changes since then? >Try copying the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to a test machine and see if it >lets you login then (IE test if it is actually a password change or something >broken in PAM etc). There was a total of 5 hours between

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 04:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there anything ordinary that can cause passwords to be changed? I tried > to log in last night and sshd wouldn't accept either my user's password or > my root password. When I got physical access this morning, I couldn't log > into the consol

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 04:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there anything ordinary that can cause passwords to be changed? I tried > to log in last night and sshd wouldn't accept either my user's password or > my root password. When I got physical access this morning, I couldn't log > into the consol

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > If it was rooted, I need to get some source code off it. Can I just stick the hard drive in another system, so I can get that source off of it, and diff it to my backups? Probably simpler to just boot from a CD and mount the filesystem you need to get stuff o

passwords changed?

2004-04-09 Thread sciencewhiz
Is there anything ordinary that can cause passwords to be changed? I tried to log in last night and sshd wouldn't accept either my user's password or my root password. When I got physical access this morning, I couldn't log into the console either. So, my first though is that I got rooted, and

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > If it was rooted, I need to get some source code off it. Can I just stick the hard drive in another system, so I can get that source off of it, and diff it to my backups? Probably simpler to just boot from a CD and mount the filesystem you need to get stuff o

passwords changed?

2004-04-09 Thread sciencewhiz
Is there anything ordinary that can cause passwords to be changed? I tried to log in last night and sshd wouldn't accept either my user's password or my root password. When I got physical access this morning, I couldn't log into the console either. So, my first though is that I got rooted, and