Thanks Herbert. Your insights are always useful and fun.
Rod
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:15:32AM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > Well that's a pretty sorry excuse for a Subject but the only thing I could
> > think of. :-)
> >
> > Short story. A client got their Vserver broken into and though it appears
> > I got them cleaned out but I'm still doing some forensics. There were
> > some files changed ( I don't think they knew it was a Vserver ) and fcheck
> > caught the problem files but I'm not sure if they are even needed.
>
> hehe ... good that they didn't knew then ...
>
> > Is there any reason for ifdown, ifup, installkernel, ldconfig, sln,
> > vhalt, vreboot are needed or should be in a Vserver?
>
> the is no use, but also no harm in ifdown/ifup if the
> vserver does not have the NET_ADMIN capability ...
> ldconfig and sln might be useful inside .. who knows
> but vhalt and vreboot are not used anymore ...
>
> > This is pretty old kernel ( CTX ) and I think I made a mistake and
> > created the Vserver from the main server.
> > I'm also seeing some $VSERVER/dev/hdx?, $VSERVER/dev/log,
> > $VSERVER/dev/stdout, $VSERVER/dev/ttyo?, and $VSERVER/dev/tty.
>
> anything more than the following is not needed and might
> (or will) be dangerous if supplied ...
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 Apr 6 2003 full
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 01:42 log=
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 6 2003 null
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 Feb 16 03:07 ptmx
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 16 01:37 pts/
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 Apr 6 2003 random
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Apr 6 2003 tty
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Apr 6 2003 urandom
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 6 2003 zero
>
> std* are usually symlinks into /proc so they should be
> fine ...
>
> > Any pointers or thoughts?
>
> HTH,
> Herbert
>
> > TIA,
> > Rod
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