If it got the contents of /etc/shadow then they got root as that file is
normally only readable by root. Big worry.
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Howard.
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Simon Bowden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This occurred to me as well last night - I think around 3am. Similarly, it
> was discovered because the mail destination domain could not be found.
> However, I think this is because somewhere in teh process of getting in,
> they broke my local named (i wasnt working in the morning) - that or
> somewhere upstream someone hurt DNS - I was getting a lot of "Lame server
> errors". The email contained the output of ifconfig and the contents of
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
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