Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread pk
Grant Edwards wrote: It was a very sobering experience... I'm sure it was. I hope I never experience anything like that. Well, I guess I could be already without knowing... :-/ Thanks for the info! Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 10 August 2009 05:36:00 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but

[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 10 August 2009 05:36:00 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 10 August 2009 16:10:53 Grant Edwards wrote: Red Hat were quite clear at the time that the release was not actually for real use, more for testing. I think the switch to glibc-2 was the underlying reason. Anyway, lots of folks got bitten because they installed and used it anyway.

[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but I'm curious about the details. Can you please elaborate?