Then very definitely be sure you have the rootkit angle covered.

A mac would have a /var/log/sytem.log and secure.log - haven't looked at 
them much, but they might tell you what's going on. There may even be a 
GUI log viewer in the control panel, I'm not sure. And that's ONLY if 
you have ssh and samba turned on for that machine.

Vern

Jonathan Bartels wrote:
> Damn it.
> 
> Given a choice I would prefer to take the longer, slightly riskier route 
> of repairing rather than reinstalling.
> 
> The only other machines on the network are my wifes Mac (how can I 
> review logins on that?) and my throwaway laptop (will be rebuilt).
> 
> What I'm expecting is that from the postgres account the user would have 
> full access to anything running on postgres as well as whatever read 
> access a normal user would have. The only "sensitive" operations I do on 
> that machine are online banking, so I'll generate some new passwords at 
> work and wipe out my keepass file at home.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Rob Ludwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     Yeah I agree and run the root kit detector from a bootable cdrom or usb
>     key, using a known linux kernel that has not been corrupted.
> 
>     There are rootkits that hide the existence of themselves by loading a
>     special kernel module that prevents root from seeing certain files,
>     processes, and other things necessary to detect their presence.
> 
>     --R
> 
>     On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 22:09 -0400, Vern Ceder wrote:
>      > Don't forget to check for a rootkit, or to be even safer, just
>     resintall
>      > the OS from scratch and the data from a back up.
>      >
>      > There is a chkrootkit and a rkhunter, I believe, that will check for
>      > rootkits.
>      >
>      > Vern
>      >
>      > Rob Ludwick wrote:
>      > > Jon,
>      > >
>      > > 92.55.82.121 <http://92.55.82.121> is listed in Dshield.org
>     database, as an attacker 3 times.
>      > > Possibly from Macedonia.
>      > >
>      > > 62.162.164.116 <http://62.162.164.116> is in a block assigned
>     to Macedonia, it appears 0 times
>      > > in the Dshield.org database.
>      > >
>      > > Considering that both came from Macedonia, one with a hit on
>     Dshield, I
>      > > would say that yes.  It's safe to assume you've been hacked.
>      > >
>      > > If you've noticed, there may have been a lot of activity on
>     port 22,
>      > > with a lot of rejections on the same IP within maybe within a
>     span of 30
>      > > minutes.  Then there's another IP address that scans the next
>     day with
>      > > another set of usernames and passwords.  That's been pretty
>     standard for
>      > > about 2 or 3 years now.
>      > >
>      > > So I would figure out if they had any access to boxes on that
>     network as
>      > > well.  Putting nologin in /etc/passwd is good, but they may
>     have been
>      > > going on for a while, and that may not be their only avenue of
>     entry.
>      > >
>      > > And when you determine the list of boxes they had entered on your
>      > > network, reformat them and put a fresh install of software on.
>      > >
>      > > And if you did any banking with those boxes, it would be wise
>     to change
>      > > account passwords.  As well as any other account you consider
>      > > confidential that you accessed from those machines.
>      > >
>      > > --R
>      > >
>      > > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:20 -0400, Jon wrote:
>      > >> In the last few weeks I poked a hole through my router to SSH
>     into my
>      > >> box at home from the road.
>      > >>
>      > >> I was just scrounging thru the auth.log with `grep 'Accepted
>     password
>      > >> for' ./auth.log* | less`
>      > >>
>      > >> And got this:
>      > >>
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 12:03:39 nichtscheissen sshd[24906]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 5873 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 13:04:40 nichtscheissen sshd[25857]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 4689 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 21:41:34 nichtscheissen sshd[1839]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 40752 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 21:43:27 nichtscheissen sshd[2138]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 40755 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 21:44:07 nichtscheissen sshd[2155]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 40757 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 22:01:27 nichtscheissen sshd[2440]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 43941 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 22:01:50 nichtscheissen sshd[2452]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 43942 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 22:09:36 nichtscheissen sshd[2726]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 46126 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 29 21:17:35 nichtscheissen sshd[18658]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
>     port 42032 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:34:03 nichtscheissen sshd[26223]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 21045 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:34:09 nichtscheissen sshd[26227]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 21283 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:38:42 nichtscheissen sshd[26243]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 20307 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:39:21 nichtscheissen sshd[26257]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 20229 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:39:44 nichtscheissen sshd[26262]: Accepted
>      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
>     port 17171 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 18:13:22 nichtscheissen sshd[6258]: Accepted
>      > >> password for postgres from  port 63075 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 03:20:35 nichtscheissen sshd[11115]: Accepted
>      > >> password for postgres from 62.162.164.116
>     <http://62.162.164.116> port 1283 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 03:31:04 nichtscheissen sshd[11368]: Accepted
>      > >> password for postgres from 62.162.164.116
>     <http://62.162.164.116> port 1685 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 11:04:02 nichtscheissen sshd[18404]: Accepted
>      > >> password for postgres from 62.162.164.116
>     <http://62.162.164.116> port 3262 ssh2
>      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 13:41:06 nichtscheissen sshd[20845]: Accepted
>      > >> password for postgres from 92.55.82.121 <http://92.55.82.121>
>     port 64237 ssh2
>      > >>
>      > >> The logins for me from the 216 address are kosher. Thats me
>     from work.
>      > >>
>      > >> Its the logins for postgres that concern me.
>      > >>
>      > >> What I've done so far is changed the postgres users shell
>      > >> to /usr/sbin/nologin.
>      > >>
>      > >> Any ideas whats going on here? How concerned should I be about
>     these
>      > >> successful logins?
>      > >>
>      > >
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