Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/27/2010 12:57 AM: From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com If you were unable to find any inbound connections whilst these ~300 outbound connections were present, Has anyone come up with a viable theory as to why outbound connections would be initiated by

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-27 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:57:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Has anyone come up with a viable theory as to why outbound connections would be initiated by sshd (or something calling itself sshd) as opposed to ssh? (...) sshd is daemon server name for SSH service. As long as someone establish a

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-27 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 27.06.10 11:12, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/27/2010 12:57 AM: From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com If you were unable to find any inbound connections whilst these ~300 outbound connections were present, Has

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:22 -0700 (PDT), Marc Shapiro For now, the system is powered down and the FIOS router is disconnected. Whoever got to my box had to get past the router's firewall, so I am hoping that it gets a new IP address when I do plug it back in. I'm trying to figure how a

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/25/2010 3:00 PM: On 06/25/2010 01:47 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: From: Hanspeter Spalingerdeb...@spahan.ch [snip] On the other side this all could be just a camouflage (?) but that wouldnt make lot sense as postgresql doing sshd is not realy a good camouflage...

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com If you were unable to find any inbound connections whilst these ~300 outbound connections were present, Has anyone come up with a viable theory as to why outbound connections would be initiated by sshd (or something calling itself sshd) as opposed

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: I am getting lines like: tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22SYN_SENT 9853/sshd tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:35055 59.120.163.53:22 ESTABLISHED 9995/sshd It appears someone has cracked/pwn3d

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:30:52AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: It appears someone has cracked/pwn3d your Debian host. That's an _outbound_ SSH connection. 59.120.163.53 is HINET network space in Taiwan. There are a lot of distributed ssh attacks on our network for the past week or two.

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: I am getting lines like: tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22 SYN_SENT9853/sshd tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:35055

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: I am getting lines like: tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 25.06.10 18:51, schrieb Tom Furie: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: I am getting lines

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Hanspeter Spalinger deb...@spahan.ch schrieb Tom Furie: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: I am getting lines like: tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/25/2010 01:47 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: From: Hanspeter Spalingerdeb...@spahan.ch [snip] On the other side this all could be just a camouflage (?) but that wouldnt make lot sense as postgresql doing sshd is not realy a good camouflage... For now, the system is powered down and the

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-24 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 24.06.10 04:58, schrieb Marc Shapiro: I am running a Lenny box, with postgressq-8.4. I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 sshd processes running under user postgres. I killed the postgresql-8.4 process, but the sshd processes

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Sorry, Hanspeter, for the extra posting to you directly. - Original Message From: Hanspeter Spalinger ha...@spahan.ch schrieb Marc Shapiro: I am running a Lenny box, with postgressq-8.4. I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 sshd processes running under user

Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running a Lenny box, with postgressq-8.4. I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 sshd processes running under user postgres. I killed the postgresql-8.4 process, but the sshd processes were still there, so I killed them. I then started postgres again, followed by ssh. I

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/23/2010 9:58 PM: I am running a Lenny box, with postgressq-8.4. I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 sshd processes running under user postgres. I killed the postgresql-8.4 process, but the sshd processes were still there, so I killed them. I then