Re: Hackers on the web

[email protected] (David D. Smith)
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.morlug
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
 "Andrei" == Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> writes:

  Andrei> I am running a RH7.2 server at home as a gateway to
  Andrei> Adelphia's cable Internet. I recently checked the logs and
  Andrei> found a huge number of root access attempts. I did not
  Andrei> really see any suspicious things happening on that computer
  Andrei> except once the external network card disconnected by itself
  Andrei> (that is, somehow did 'ifdown eth1'), but I am not 100% sure
  Andrei> if it wasn't something I accidentally triggered.

First, are you sure it wasn't cron? The cron daemon generally runs as
root.
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  David D. Smith
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