On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Dusty Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/1 Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> What follows below is a recounting of the Great Gerolde Breakage of >> '08. Details are provided by eyewitness accounts, and names have been >> changed to protect the innocent. >> >> It was a dark and gloomy night, that Thursday. I had come home late, >> in a bit of a dour mood, and had been drinking a bit. I sat down at my >> computer to check some emails and do some things before bed. When I >> concluded my events for the night, I decided it was time to -Syu and >> reboot. So I closed everything down except one terminal. The events >> below were all internal monologue: >> >> Hmm, Syu time. Woah, that's a lot of packages.... ah well. ENTER >> Huh, why do I have apache on this laptop? I'll have to remove that later. >> Hmm... mailman? I KNOW I didn't install that... what the? OH MY GOD >> THIS IS GEROLDE! >> >> I immediately Ctrl-C'd because I had a "sudo reboot" queued up for >> when the -Syu finished. I paused for a moment, kicking myself for >> doing that. I checked apache, and it was still running. ftp was >> working too. >> >> Ok, good. Exit SSH. Let me -Syu locally. >> >> Re-ssh to gerolde... immediate "permission denied". Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. >> >> Yeah, I Ctrl-C'd before a kerberos upgrade was finished. This broke >> ssh, and something else goofy broke mailman. >> >> I emailed Dale, and he fixed SSH in the morning (whew, thanks a lot >> Dale). Mailman was a bit harder, but considering everything was down >> already, we switched from exim to postfix, as we'd been talking about >> it for ages. Hooray for silver linings! >> >> So. It's all back up now. Mailman is working, postfix is working, and >> everything else should be in working order. If something is broken, >> please let me know. >> >> Sorry for the inconvenience. >> >> Gerolde, hacked by phrak > > Well written and all but I seriously think we should forward this to > Skoal for some bardification. =) > > Well done! Now you can get the hacked by phrak t-shirt!
"I survived the '08 Gerold Phrak Hack"?
