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From: Dan Margolis <krispykringle@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] SSH login attempts and /var/log/wtmp
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:40:17
Message-Id: 410FA3A6.9070605@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] SSH login attempts and /var/log/wtmp by Bryan O'Shea
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4 Bryan O'Shea wrote:
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6 | After further investigation I have gone through all my backup logs and
7 | noticed a user test was installed on the attempts in question. The user
8 | was later deleted by a bulk user cleanup script I run to delete old
9 | accounts. I further saw login attempts in my logs for the user test
10 | after the account was deleted and no entries showed up in my 'last'
11 | output on further login attempts. I had the shell set to /bin/false.
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13 I assume you mean you or a package installed the user test intentionally
14 and used it to log in?
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16 Don't apologize; you had me scared for a while, but I'm sure we're all
17 just relieved to learn that this isn't evidence for some ruthless,
18 unstoppable attack. ;)
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21 Dan ("KrispyKringle")
22 Gentoo Linux Security Coordinator
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Re: [gentoo-security] SSH login attempts and /var/log/wtmp Bryan O'Shea <bryan05@××××××××.net>