Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:32:26 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: Bob Johnson <bob88@wb4jcm.org> Subject: Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, Message-ID: <200403051532.i25FWRt25369@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040305050542.GA94489@xor.obsecurity.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Mar 04, 2004 09:05:42 PM
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> > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill <Jonathan Neill=20 > > <TYR124840@tyler.net>> wrote: > > > Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but > > > something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in / with > > > the same name as my root password and I was curious as to what > > > exactly this might be. (I always SSH into the box on a regular user > > > then su root to do work.) > >=20 > > That depends. Is your password "entropy"? > > If not, tell us what it is so we can figure out what is creating it :-) And so we can get in to your machine and "fix" it for you. We're all helpful people out here on the net. ////jerry > > Kris >
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