Can't access remote machine anymore

Duane Morin dmorin at morinfamily.com
Tue Feb 6 11:43:39 EST 2001


When this happened to me, I'd been root kitted.  Somebody had replaced 
/bin/login with something that just didn't work, so I couldn't get a shell.
But if I recall correctly, ftp continued to work.


> Anyone have any ideas why I can't get to a machine today, that I could get to yesterday?
> 
> I administer a machine remotely for a friend of mine (RH6.2). I check in on it each morning via ssh. Everything has been fine for the past few months, but then this morning - "Unable to connect"
> 
> I can still pick up mail on it, and ftp is available, and apache is up and running...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Phil Buckley
> 
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