From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 17: 6:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B05837B636 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 17:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-226.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.226] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA25975; Tue, 30 May 2000 10:08:30 +1000 From: Danny To: "James A. Mutter" , EmailWeb@aol.com Subject: Re: Users can't loggin now! Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:11:37 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00053110140107.00328@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some one could have hacked into your freebsd box and started it in single user mode So no one /home/username can log in From memeory There is a file called /etc/fstab with a list of the partitions Just try use the mount command to mount the partitions Then run fsck. Hopefully if you restart your freebsd box everything should be fine On Tue, 30 May 2000, James A. Mutter wrote: > > My FreeBSD box was hacked cause of a vunerbailty in qmail and I can't > > login remotly or at the console anymore > > Only root console logins are possible > > It says can't find root directory > > > > What directoryu should I chmod or what to fix the problem > > > How do you know that it was hacked due to a vulnerability in QMail? Just > curious. > > Anyhow, it sounds to me as if your "home" partition/directory is now > missing. As root you should try to "cd /usr/home/" and see if > the directory structure still exists. For the record, I doubt that you > can just chmod a file/directory or two and make this go away. If things > are broken beyond your ability to diagnose/repair them you might be better > off reinstalling. > > -- > Jim > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message