On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Erik Bourget wrote:
> I had a very bizarre situation where four boxes in the same rack all
> simultaneously (within 30 minutes) hard-locked with Oops messages. The boxes
An obvious idea - after reading an article about a break-in into Debian
and others' boxes - sure you weren't cracked?
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
Guennadi Liakhovetski <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Erik Bourget wrote:
>
>> I had a very bizarre situation where four boxes in the same rack all
>> simultaneously (within 30 minutes) hard-locked with Oops messages. The
>> boxes
>
> An obvious idea - after reading an article about a break-in into Debian
> and others' boxes - sure you weren't cracked?
Yeah, that was a concern and I'm relatively sure that's not the case because
*) chkrootkit says so (mod some hidden processes that are reported by a bug in
chkrootkit according to Google)
*) The crashy boxes were all installed with 2.4.23, not upgraded, so the big
Debian vulnerability didn't exist
*) The only open ports to the outside world are running SMTP and POP3 as
non-root no-shell accounts, and it's running qmail which seems simple and
safe enough.
- Erik Bourget