On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Russell Senior wrote:

> Even more disturbingly, su took me right to a root prompt.  The 
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow appear to be intact.  I immediately 
> assumed the worst and unplugged it from the network, booted a 
> live-cd and did some trolling through the filesystems.  I found 
> evidence in /var/log/auth.log that two or three ssh-knockers had 
> logged in as root, but within a minute had logged out again.  I 
> disregarded all the cool forensics stuff I learned at PLUG a month 
> ago.

How old is this Debian box? Have you run ssh-vulnkey to make sure your 
system and user keys aren't predictable ala CVE-2008-0166:

   http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> www.madboa.com
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