>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> writes:

Paul> 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.

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

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

It doesn't get as much attention as my other boxes, but I am pretty
sure I dealt with that last spring (or whenever it was).  It is
possible I missed something.  Running ssh-vulnkey gives me some
"Unknown" which is weird, since the openssh-blacklist package is
installed.


-- 
Russell Senior         ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.''
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