[Gllug] My firewall is rooted

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Mon Jul 15 13:35:10 UTC 2002


>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? 

Also, remember not to use the same root password. There's every chance
that "Dave" has logged your failed attempts with the old password, and
you should assume that he knows what it is.

Tet


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