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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 02:41:44 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
Cc:        Alex Holst <a@area51.dk>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Apache Software Foundation Server compromised, resecured. (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20010601024144.H85717@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105311727160.66343-100000@pogo.caustic.org>; from jan@caustic.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:28:52PM -0700
References:  <20010601013041.A32818@area51.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105311727160.66343-100000@pogo.caustic.org>

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f.johan.beisser(jan@caustic.org)@2001.05.31 17:28:52 +0000:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alex Holst wrote:
>=20
> > That should be verified often with scanssh or something similar. I was
> > surprised when I read about the compromise, because it gives the impres=
sion
> > that people are still using passwords (as opposed to keys with passphra=
ses)
> > for authentication in this day and age. Is that correct? If so, why is =
that?
>=20
> 	based on what i've read this morning, it wouldn't have made
> 	all that much of a difference. aparently the compromised
> 	version of ssh recorded passphrases, and keys.
>=20
> 	i don't see how else you could have avoided this problem.
use mtree(8) or tripwire
/k

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