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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:03:53 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is this a breakin (attempt)?
Message-ID:  <02022718035303.00825@proxy.pt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020227091544.A15249@freeze.org>
References:  <20020227081821.A12905@freeze.org> <02022708505801.00825@proxy.pt.com> <20020227091544.A15249@freeze.org>

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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:15, Jim Freeze wrote:
> > On another angle, I get this kind of thing all the time.  In December, I
> > had Samba running unprotected on this machine for about a month (due to
> > carelessness on
>
> What do you mean unprotected. You have my attention here.

No ipfw rules preventing access to samba from the internet, and
the Samba config did not have any interfaces bound, so it was accepting
connections on all interfaces.
Lucky for me, I had Samba in "user" mode (which required a password
to log in) and the Samba logs showed attempted connections that timed
out waiting for a password.  Thus, the people attempting to access weren't
being too terribly clever.  They probably just gave up when they were asked
for a password.

I've now solved this problem by telling Samba only to bind to the internal
interface on this machine, so it doesn't even listen to requests that may
come in from the Internet.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technology technical services
http://www.potentialtech.com

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