what to do when you've been rooted

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sat Jan 20 20:21:52 PST 2001


begin Devin Carraway quotation:

> There are some trust issues in /home also, if you made
> executables for yourself in there, but they're less common targets.

Not just executables.  Dotfiles, too.  E.g., some of the more
enterprising bad guys leave ~/.rhosts files behind as an additional 
backdoor way of getting back in.

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