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Server hacked, Desperate for help with FC6



Bill Horne wrote:
>> The Ubuntu Enterprise server we're using was compromised on a
>> non-priviledged account once, but there isn't anything installed that
>> the user could use, so no worries. 

They had left a file '.sudo_to_admin' or somesuch in the user's home
folder, which strangely wasn't true at all. In fact, the user that they
had logged in as, didn't have much of any rights at all. The only reason
I had even checked it was because one of my RHEL boxes had been
compromised (using a PHP vulnerability). I suspect that is was done by
some sort of script, and had the user logged-in later, would have
quickly realized that the account couldn't do much of anything.
Grant M.
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