Hi Lew, > Also, regarding the restore, IIRC I think for the sake of speed the data > center may use "pre-restored" hard disks that are swapped in upon an OS > restore request. Not sure if this was actually the case, or whether the > restore was from a CD.
Hmm ... I'd guess that they either used a hardisk with the OS already on it, or they assigned you a RaQ which had been sitting around idly for some time. Which could be a problem because it might have been missing patches and was unmanaged and unmonitored. That's always a fishy combination. It's easy to check the OS restore date, though: #> ls -la /etc/build -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 May 27 00:18 /etc/build So the box used in this example was OS restored on May 27th. -- With best regards, Michael Stauber _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
