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Oliver Schad wrote: |
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> Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 01:48 schrieb mir Christian Limberg: |
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>> maybe you can emerge tools like chrootkit or rkhunter for checking |
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>> your box for intruders. Clearly, it wouldn't help, if someone has |
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>> 'bruteforced' your password, but if an intruder came throu a |
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>> vunerable application and installed a rootkit or something like that, |
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>> the tools might help you. |
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> No, you can't detect with those tools if your system is *not* |
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> compromised. |
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>> Furthermore it is highly recommended, that your root-password |
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>> contains of a non-dictionay alpha-numeric (at least capitals, lower |
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>> case letters and numbers) 8 character long phrase. |
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> And it it highly recommended to set up a new system from scratch. |
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> Everything else is Russian roulette. |
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> Regards |
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> Oli |
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There are a lot of good schemes for creating solid, memorable passwords. |
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My favorite advice comes from the USAH (http://www.admin.com/). To |
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paraphrase, come up with a nonsensical and slightly offensive (George |
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Carlin's seven words are allowed: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words) phrase of a half dozen |
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or so words. Take the first two letters from each word. Then mix up the |
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case and use numbers or symbols to replace certain letters occasionally. |
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The result is a pretty solid password that you should be able to |
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remember by remembering the silly phrase you started with. |
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