[100532] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Hacked! :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Sat Nov 21 15:57:35 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:53:35 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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UNIXMAN wrote:
>
> did you se a password for root? <G> How have they been breaking in to
> your systems so easily?
A few ways that I can think of.
(1) Log in as a regular dial up user for FTP, and download
/etc/passwd
(2) (harder) Log in as anonymous and download /etc/passwd.
(3) If he does not use shadow passwords, the /etc/passwd
encryption is easy to break.
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