[100535] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Hacked! :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Sat Nov 21 16:21:36 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:19:35 -0800 (PST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9811211307450.23339-100000@gutenberg.uoregon.edu> from "Sean Harding" at Nov 21, 98 01:08:58 pm
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Not particularly. Any cracker who values his own time won't bother trying
> to decrypt passwd entries. Time is better spent using a dictionary attack
> program, such as Crack...
Exactly. Speaking of password entries, this perp put two entries in
/etc/passwd which I removed. Also I went through /etc/passwd and noticed
some obvious things, like no password for www and http accounts, so
I locked them.
And, telnet & rlogin services are disabled here for a while...
> sean
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David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me
dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com the change magnetic patterns
root@belvedere.sbay.org churches on your hard disk.
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