Re: Possible compromise ?

From: Peter Rosa (prosa_at_pro.sk)
Date: 01/27/04

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    To: "security at FreeBSD" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
    Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:23:45 +0100
    
    

    OK, sorry for unclear previous message.

    In the past, one man teached me the FreeBSD basics and also installed my
    gateway. In that time, I was not able to install and setup FreeBSD by
    myself. He left there some holes - e.g. open virtual consoles, unset
    firewall, etc. As the time went, I learned a lot about Unixes and FreeBSD
    and I tried to setup my own firewall, install and setup some programs (with
    big help of this and Questions lists, manpages and other books).

    When I tried to setup more security on that system, except other things, I
    disabled all virtual tty's, because there is no need to connect to this
    machine remotelly (it's located 5 steps from my desk). In the past, that man
    connected to my system remotely from various IPs.

    Now, when I cat /var/log/lastlog, in the very bottom of the file, I can read
    some connects from remote machines to ttyp0 and ttyp1. It's impossible for
    me to retrieve connection dates from that file. Of course, I read man last,
    man wtmp, etc., but there is nothing about /var/log/lastlog file.

    May be, that lines was added in the deep past, when the machine was open.
    But may be, it was done in few previous days...

    I know, if my machine was compromised, it is impossible to believe in
    anything on that machine (also kernel, sources). So, are there some other
    ways to get information about connection dates?

    Peter Rosa

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