Chances are:
j00 b33n 0wn3zd
In other words, I would take this thing offline, search for rootkits,
save your data, format and re-install.
adn NEVER NEVER NEVER use telnet again. AND if you DO use telnet, NEVER
use telnet as root, or to gain root access. thats just a security
incident waiting to happen.
cheers
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, shahzad sarwar wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am running Red hat Linux release .7 kernel 2.2.16-22. Problem is that one day,
>the rights of whole directory structrue changed to 777.
> With reference that no one has changed the rights. i have seen all the .bash_history
>files. when this change occured there was one prompt open
> with root (via telnet).
> So now linux is not accepting the root passwd ,even when i changed it from the
>already opned root prompt.
>
> Is there any secuirty feature in linux that ,has changed the rights of linux box .
>
> regards,
> shahzad
>
>
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