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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:04:56 -0700
From:      "Kyle Mott" <kyle@xraided.net>
To:        "'Doug White'" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Rebuilding wtmp
Message-ID:  <000401c469c4$b0ec5000$150ba8c0@kyle>
In-Reply-To: <20040713190819.H527@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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Hi Doug, thanks for the reply. I found out all I needed to do was
recompile SSH from ports. It now works just fine. Thanks!


 
 
-Kyle Mott

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite@gumbysoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:10 PM
> To: Kyle Mott
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Rebuilding wtmp
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Kyle Mott wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I have several systems that report 'w' and 'who'
wrong/corrupted:
> > root@neo:~# w
> > USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > kyle             p0       -                31Dec69     - w
> >
> > Obviously, Dec 31st 1969 is not right:
> > root@neo:~# date
> > Mon Jul 12 11:27:15 PDT 2004
> 
> you might make sure your w/who binary hasn't been fiddled with.
Changes
> like this tend to point to a diagreement among utmp/wtmp writers about
the
> file format.
> 
> I've seen this where w was trojaned to mask certain user logins.
> 
> --
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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