[Gllug] My firewall is rooted

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at start.no
Tue Jul 16 10:59:41 UTC 2002


* Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk> spake thus:
> OK. So I ssh into the firewall (first time in a week or so) to discover loads 
> of running processes ./a and a new user in my password file called dave. So 
> out he goes and shutdown all the processes. Passwd file was locked so I 
> removed /etc/ptmp and removed the dave entry. (BTW this is an OpenBSD box)
> Rebooted the machine. First mistake.
> 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 

Why bother rescuing the pf rules? You're gonna change them now anyway,
right? :)

Stig

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