On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 22:39:32 Rilindo Foster wrote:
>Okay, that confirms the problem. Now how to recover (short of
>reinstallation)? Had anybody every recovered from such an incident?
You cannot depend on what any of your sysadmin tools are telling you. I'm
surprised they even left the system log
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote:
> John,
>
> I hope not. Having said that, I looked at the messages file and I found this
> wierd part that came up shortly after the server was setup:
>
Hmmlooking at that stuff, looks like someone used an
exploit and got in. I'd say reinstall time.
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Subject: RE: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote:
> Feb 27 22:35:35 redhserver rpc.statd[360]: gethostbyname error for
> ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿b750 8049710 8052c28687
...
> Feb 27 22:38:20 redhserver
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote:
> Feb 27 22:35:35 redhserver rpc.statd[360]: gethostbyname error for
> ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿b750 8049710 8052c28687
...
> Feb 27 22:38:20 redhserver adduser[3642]: new user: name=sql, uid=0, gid=0,
> home=/bin, shell=/bin/bash
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote:
> Friends,
>
> We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go
> change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to
> root). At any rate, here is the problem.
>
> The client can't login with the user passw
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote:
> Friends,
>
> We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go
> change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to
> root). At any rate, here is the problem.
>
[snip]
>
> It is as if the root password
Friends,
We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go
change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to
root). At any rate, here is the problem.
The client can't login with the user password that he set; however, he can
login via the root pas
