This workstation compromised... Not sure how, but...

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 20 12:05:52 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:04, Scott Elcomb wrote:

> I'm certainly open to any ideas.  Here's what I know so far:
>
> #1 - On boot, non-root user id/passwd that has been in use for > 1
> year is not working.
>
> #2 - Using a virtual console, login as root and running passwd for the
> workstation id, changed passwd for workstation id.
>
> #3 - New password does _not_ work for associated id.
>
> #4 - New password _does work_ for root.

What do the logs say?

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