[Gllug] My firewall is rooted

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Jul 15 11:31:13 UTC 2002


On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:20:05PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:

> Now my root password doesn't work any more. SO. Do I want to even bother 
> fixing this machine up or shall I just rescue my pf and nat rules, wipe the 
> box and start again? Will there be a load of backdoors and other nasties on 
> there now? 

The point is that you just don't know.
Restore from backup -- or rescue config info, rescue log files (see if Dave
left any traces), rebuild, apply latest security fixes.

-- 
Alain Williams

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