Re: cron exploit?

From: Tim Greer (chatmaster_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/30/03 

To: Jeremy Hanmer <jeremy@hq.newdream.net>
Date: 30 Sep 2003 11:07:49 -0700

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:34, Jeremy Hanmer wrote:

>
> Right now, I'm still curious to find out why they were poking around
> cron stuff so much if it wasn't related to their entry, but I'm
> generally in the dark as to exactly what happened since they obviously
> cleaned up most of the logs.

Likely they were trying to set it so cron would run the log cleanup
routines etc., after they logged out. Otherwise, it's hard to say why. 

-- 
Tim Greer <chatmaster@charter.net>
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