yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may have been steps we could/should have taken to prevent it, but this was setup by our isp and was supposed to be 'secure')...
John D -----Original Message----- From: Greg Shikhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:23 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
