Re: a security question

From: Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/10/02 

From: cmk128@hotmail.com (Peter)
Date: 10 May 2002 07:38:47 -0700

Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> wrote in message news:<3CDB8F51.2DC03F57@daimi.au.dk>...
> Peter wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> > After i typed finger, i got this:
> >
> > Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office
> > Phone
> > root root *:0 Jan 15 22:54 <-- How to kick
> > this guy out of my computer?
>
> Somebody has logged in as root on the X-server. As he already has
> root permitions on the box it might already be too late to do
> anything other than reinstall the system. But since you know he
> is sitting right there in front of your computer it might be
> easier to just kick him off the chair and kick him until he runs
> away from your computer.

   Really no way to stop his tty? If he log as a normal user, how to
kick him?
If he telnet to my computer , how to kick him without restart the
telnet daemon? because other user is logging to my computer too

thank you for you reply
from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)

>
> > root root pts/0 25 Jan 15 22:54
> > root root pts/1 2 Jan 15 22:56
> > root root *pts/2 15d Jan 15 23:19
> > root root pts/3 Jan 15 23:19
> > root root pts/4 Jan 15 23:19
> >
> > Also, I someone try the login to my computer but he got fail, because
> > he inputed the wrong password.
>
> How many times did he try?
>
> > How can i view what wrong password he has inputed?
>
> You cannot, the attempted passwords are not logged. Only user
> names are logged. Why would you want to know?

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