Thank you for all your help - and to the person who kindly made me the pkg file to restore the hosts.allow and deny files ;) Finally im back in the server - and got my tcp_wrappers setup correctly this time ;)
-John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Frisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 3:14 AM Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] BIG mistake = Big problem = need help pls! > > OK I have made a big f*** up on my cobalt Raq3 using tcp_wrappers - which > > looks like it has left everyone denied access via SSH, telnet and ftp. > > > > I was trying to make the server more secure as ive been having > > failed loggin > > attemps for users therefore I added ALL: ALL to hosts.deny and > > THOUGH i had > > added my host correctly to the hosts.allow file - but it looks > > like I havent > > as I am unable to ssh into the server now. > > > > The people who host the server, cobaltrack, say there is nothing > > they can do > > except reload the OS - which is out of the questions as nothing > > is backup on > > the server. > > This is kind of a crock, they can simply connect to the serial port on the > back of the RAQ using in PC and terminal emulator for full console access to > the machine (using a null modem cable of course). Either the person you > talked to doesn't have a clue about what they are doing or they are trying > to mislead you because they don't want to be bothered doing it. > > > > > The only access I have to the server now is via the web based interface, > > which i hardly ever used. Anyways I was thinking the old way around this > > would be to make a PKG file that I could load from the web based interface > > which would replace my hosts.allow and hosts.deny with CLEAN > > copies of them, > > only prob is I have no idea how to make a PKG file to do this. > > > > If anyone could guide me in the right steps, some hits on where to look on > > the net etc about writing PKG files i would be most greatfull > > Wow I would only ever go there as a last resort, the other fix will take a > couple minutes. I keep a notebook and serial cable handy for these sorts of > circumstances. Maybe you could offer to pay them for 5 minutes of > consulting time to cover their costs . . . > > Eric > > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-security mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security > _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
