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Date:      Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:17:23 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lisa Casey <lisa@mail.jellico.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about entry in auth.log
Message-ID:  <20081115081723.GA66941@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20081115073714.GA66093@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <B8B09B39A8884900970CF2434D40F6C4@CaseyHome> <BAY122-DAV1214B45821956EB1D7B782BA110@phx.gbl> <692726B5-52B5-46AC-9C79-41553179AF36@comcast.net> <20081114215444.C8966@mail.jellico.com> <20081115073714.GA66093@icarus.home.lan>

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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:37:15PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00:13PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote:
> > Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever  
> > been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and 
> > downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it along with  
> > chklastlog and chkwtmp. Nothing was found. Pehaps this was a harmless  
> > enough prank? Anything else I ought to look at? Fortunately the michael  
> > account did not have te ability to su to root.
> 
> The individual in Romania *was not* able to log in as michael.  The

Correction: the individual **WAS** able to log in as michael.  I missed
the part of the message that said "Accepted" at the front.  Sorry for
confusing you, I've had a very rough week and my brain is not
functioning.

What Wojciech said is correct -- change the password on the account.

Also keep in mind that the user may not have actually logged in and
gotten a shell; the message you see can also happen if the individual
simply scp'd something (e.g. no shell spawned).

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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