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 -- gentoo-security@gentoo.org mailing list
