Re: [cobalt-users] Employee problems

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/15/00 12:01 PM, Michael D. Bathrick at prez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Had an employee leave with one last gift - changed the password on a
> machine colocated a 12 hour drive from here.  Short of blowing the entire
> weekend, does anyone know of a way to get around this?  Does Cobalt have a
> backend way into my machine?

How up to date have you been on your security patches?

You may be vulnerable to a BIND hack, among other things and you could
probably exploit it if you want.  Also I think it was Jeff that said he
could (given a normal account) gain root access to a machine in under an
hour.  It may be worth the $100 or so bucks to have him do this.

But your co-location facility should be able to help you reset the password
if you need to.

-k