Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:57:11 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Hiroo Ono <hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? Message-ID: <20020612193935.H2524-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020612151240.00e65ed0@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote to Hiroo Ono and freebsd-chat@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. RIIIIIGHT, Brett. Try a Google search next time. Or at least flip a couple pages on your calendar. :-) My favorite discussion of this was on -questions last year. http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/151/2001/7/1650/6224687/ - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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