From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 12 18:57:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655F737B412 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5D1vBH03700; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:57:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:57:11 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Brett Glass Cc: Hiroo Ono , Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020612151240.00e65ed0@localhost> Message-ID: <20020612193935.H2524-100000@ren.sasknow.com> 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 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 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