From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 6 3: 5:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from memphis.mephi.ru (memphis.mephi.ru [194.67.67.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F6F37B404 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 03:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from timon@localhost) by memphis.mephi.ru (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g16B5Uo33060; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:05:30 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from timon) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:05:30 +0300 (MSK) From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" Message-Id: <200202061105.g16B5Uo33060@memphis.mephi.ru> To: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, victor@customdynamic.net Subject: Re: Is this evidence of a break-in attempt? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020205125336.02758450@localhost> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 22:59:39 2002 > Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:54:41 -0700 > To: Victor Grey , > From: Brett Glass > Subject: Re: Is this evidence of a break-in attempt? > > In a word, yes. Looks like they went to the box with a > keyboard and a mouse, rebooted, and tried to log in. > Clearly, they were so clueless that they did not know > about single-user mode. > Well, if console is marked as `insecure' (which is MY default policy) single mode couldn't help them too much. But there is a way to get contents of any file in root filesystem from loader(8), so they could get root hash. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message