From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 12 14:16: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27F137B407 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24393; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:15:32 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook may make your system susceptible to Internet worms. If you value your time, privacy, or data, do not use Microsoft e-mail clients or browsers. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020612151240.00e65ed0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:15:25 -0600 To: Hiroo Ono , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? In-Reply-To: <86vg8uvmv2.wl@barleycoren.oikumene.gcd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:45 PM 6/7/2002, Hiroo Ono wrote: >Hello. > >Let me ask a question. >It is very trivial but I have been wondering for a long time. > >Mr. Charlie Root seems to have root account on so many FreeBSD >systems. :) Uh-oh! You've been hacked! That's the "Charlie the Tuna" virus. It inserts itself into the OS source code and can even survive a clean reinstall of the OS. April fool. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message