Re: Everything gone!

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 13:12:49 EST


On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 11:33 am, John Jasen wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > Really? How did you do this?
> > > Clone my machine-name and domain, I mean? Without -bs in the
> > > header? I need to know. This could be exploited and needs
> > > to be fixed.
> >
> > Perhaps:
> >
> > telnet target.system 25
> > enter SMTP commands
> > quit
>
> Normaly that would record the IP of the host doing the telnet.
> (the first "Recieved: from" line in the log list where the original says
> "Received: from localhost"....)

Yes. I just looked at maillog on that machine and all I had was
the 'evidence' of me screwing with it to see. Apparently it wasn't
used for forwarding mail as I thought.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.

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