> Well, I just remembered hearing about rootkits. I think all > you need is access to a user and a rootkit, but I haven't > used one so I wouldn't know...but a simple google search > came up with some linux rootkits :p
Sure, but is it really something you want to install on your system? It might get you in, but how do you ensure you remove it completely and fast enough to ensure that no one else can access the system while you're doing it? Besides, how do you know which rootkit will work with your system? Don't you think the kernel developers would be fixing holes that allowed rootkits in? Yes you get a lot of hits from google, but if you look at them Most of them are worthless. Even for hits that point at some rootkits you find that they are pretty darn old. "Compiled under FreeBSD 4.3" or "Targets kernel 2.[24]". Not very practical these days. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
