Re: [gentoo-security] Should I change my password?

[Oliver Schad]

Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 01:48 schrieb mir Christian Limberg:
> maybe you can emerge tools like chrootkit or rkhunter for checking
> your box for intruders. Clearly, it wouldn't help, if someone has
> 'bruteforced' your password, but if an intruder came throu a
> vunerable application and installed a rootkit or something like that,
> the tools might help you.

No, you can't detect with those tools if your system is *not* 
compromised.

> Furthermore it is highly recommended, that your root-password
> contains of a non-dictionay alpha-numeric (at least capitals, lower
> case letters and numbers) 8 character long phrase.

And it it highly recommended to set up a new system from scratch. 
Everything else is Russian roulette.

Regards
Oli
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