[rescue] cheapness..

[Kris Kirby]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, James Sharp wrote:
> When I left $paycheck_bouncing_company about 4 years ago, they thought
> they were cool & all by changing the root password on the machine.  Of
> course, nevermind the fact that I had and was logging in as root via SSH
> keys and not passwords.  I kept root on that machine for several weeks
> until someone screwed up a DNS zone file (which caused my mail to bounce),
> which I fixed and then put "ALWAYS REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR DNS FILES" in
> /etc/motd.  After that, the machine disappeared.

Yeah. I hadn't started using keys on that machine. It wasn't ssh
accessable from the outside world -- only DNS, and two HTTP ports.

There id10ts would think the keys were a backdoor, just like the `toor'
accounts I installed.

For the record, I hate /sbin/sh.

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