Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:05:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bob Johnson <bob88@wb4jcm.org> Cc: Jonathan Neill <TYR124840@tyler.net> Subject: Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically Message-ID: <20040305050542.GA94489@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200403042318.39213.bob88@bobj.org> References: <opr4cvwdzgytod5m@smtp.tyler.net> <200403042318.39213.bob88@bobj.org>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill <Jonathan Neill=20 > <TYR124840@tyler.net>> wrote: > > Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but > > something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in / with > > the same name as my root password and I was curious as to what > > exactly this might be. (I always SSH into the box on a regular user > > then su root to do work.) >=20 > That depends. Is your password "entropy"? If not, tell us what it is so we can figure out what is creating it :-) Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFASAqmWry0BWjoQKURAlUfAJ0SJp5CiNiJAeN383hvpU1RrR3EIQCg6RHk /EwT79YtH326q8tMFdqZ4Sk= =MQEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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