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Date:      Sat, 29 May 1999 05:02:51 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System beeing cracked!
Message-ID:  <374f731c.607312609@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL199905280927.OAA08009@nic.mmc.net.ge>
References:  <MAIL199905280927.OAA08009@nic.mmc.net.ge>

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On 28 May 1999 05:26:55 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote:

>Hello, 
>I have 3.1 installed and friend of mine made a bet that he can hack 
>into my system. He has ordinary account opened. 
>security holes in 3.1? He login as himself 
>it was done? Please, answer me, 
>as my friend do not tell me anything 
>about this as he feel like guru-hacker.
>Thank you.

Did your friend have access to a machine on the same ethernet ? He could
have sniffed your password and the root's password, and then logged in as
you, and then su'd to root.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada


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