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RE: Hacked! :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soffen, Matthew)
Mon Nov 23 10:45:58 1998
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <msoffen@iso-ne.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:46:09 -0500
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Even if you use shadow passwords, it can be broken. All it takes is
access to the shadow password file.
Matthew Soffen - Webmaster http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> From: Ramon Gandia[SMTP:rfg@nook.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 1998 3:53 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Hacked! :(
>
> 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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