Re: freebsd rootkit

From: Andrew Barros (abarros@tjhsst.edu)
Date: 05/30/01 

Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:36:11 -0400
From: Andrew Barros <abarros@tjhsst.edu>
To: Bigby Findrake <bigby@ephemeron.org>

Someone should add it in ports.

It would be rooting and then cleaning up really easy. :-)

        -ajb

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:34:29PM -0700, Bigby Findrake wrote:
->On Tue, 29 May 2001, Chris Byrnes wrote:
->
->> That's not a wise request on a list like this. Backup, format and
->> reinstall.
->
->Why not? Surely you're not suggesting that a rootkit is a bad thing, or
->that no one here would help him find one - wouldn't that be rather silly
->of us? If we knew where one was, wouldn't it make the most sense to make
->sure that anyone could get there hands on it? Isn't that (among other
->ways) how open software advances? I can't count the number of times I've
->seen security people make the argument that everyone should own lockpicks.
->
->If I misunderstood, you, Chris, what did you mean?
->
->>
->>
->> Chris Byrnes (chris@JEAH.net)
->> JEAH Communications, LLC (www.JEAH.net)
->> Call toll-free! 1-866-AWW-JEAH
->>
->>
->> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Lim Seng Chor wrote:
->>
->> > sorry, you all misunderstood me... : (
->> >
->> > i am the system admin of my site here, and i am suspecting my
->> > user is compromising my system files. i would like to check on
->> > what the files availble in rootkit, and see whether my users are
->> > using that or not.
->> > it is just for security audit purpose....
->> >
->> > stop xxxxxxx me please....
->> >
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