Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:03:49 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, dce <dce@squish.org>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 31337 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103052102280.90196-100000@awww.jeah.net> In-Reply-To: <200103060238.f262crC01056@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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> > Heh, yeah, exactly. Sometimes people jump to conclusions too fast. > > > > It's just an IRCD. > > The problem is that you don't know whether the system has been rooted > or not. As such the prudent thing is to assume that the system has > been rooted. I suppose, however, it could easily be a user running an IRC server on a box. The box admin (dce) doesn't understand what an IRC server is, and why it has opened ports. Before doing anything drastic on a production box, I like to try to work through possible simpler resolutions to the problem. + Chris Byrnes, chris@JEAH.net + JEAH Communications + 1-866-AWW-JEAH (Toll-Free) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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