From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 28 19:05:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA24359 for security-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA24302 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA07733; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:04:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Robert Watson cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , security@FreeBSD.ORG, JbHunt , "[Mario1-]" Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Robert Watson wrote: =)Hence my suggestion that you boot from floppy. You now know you are =)running the correct kernel, and have the required set of utilities to get =)things going. To be entirely honest, if you system is that hacked to =)pieces, you really need to reinstall. The chances of missing something at =)this point are just to great. That would be true except non of the admins are local users. All of us run the machine remotely. The owner who has physical access to the machines is out of town for 2-4 months and people taking care of the Estate wouldn't know what's what even if I guided them on the phone. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]