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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:16:43 -0400
From:      Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com>
To:        "Bob Boone" <bboone@whro.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jhicks@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com
Subject:   Re: Security Issue -- 
Message-ID:  <199807302016.QAA22137@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:30:42 EDT." <002e01bdbbf0$8e63eb20$ef63a8c0@wizard.whro.org> 

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Hi Bob,

Sorry to hear about your trouble.  I would take it
as a break-in.  Could be a local user though.

I would probably reload the system using a new disk,
keeping the old one in its current state.

Later, after you have a running system, you can
probably retrieve most of your web content from
the previous disk.

It'll be some work; Be most careful about
not bringing over any binary programs and
make *sure* to check your cgi-bin files for
any tampering. 

I would probably change most user names and
passwords too. (But then I'm paranoid :-)

- 

This list concerns matters important to those
who track FreeBSD's -STABLE branch.

>From your message you don't seem to be doing
that.  Sadly, this probably would have helped
prevent you from experiencing what might have
been a known exploit for 2.2.5.

Better Luck,

Jerry Hicks
jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com


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