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Date:      Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:32:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809061831480.18759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809010646140.8666-100000@phear.net>

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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jim Mock wrote:

> Ok, I might be clueless and/or a complete moron, but I've got a few
> questions about restoring files to the original/upgrading to a later
> version.
> 
> Here's the deal.. I'm running 2.2.5-RELEASE, and recently the box has been
> hacked.  I've managed to block out the attackers using ipfw and tcp
> wrappers, but after reading some stuff on CERT's site, I started checking
> the files on the machine in question with another machine and found some
> differences.. here they are..
> 
> **** ls ****

[file size changes]

> My question is this.. a) how do i go about replacing those files with the
> originals without reinstalling, and b) I've got other machines running the
> same release and I was wondering if I could copy the files from the other
> box and replace the ones in question.  I'm not sure if that'd work or not,
> so I figured I'd ask.

Yeah, it'll work fine.  This is what the Live Filesystem CD is for. :)

And mtree.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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