[cobalt-users] Re: HACKED! Unable To TELNET in to RAQ3 as admin or any other user!!!

["Eddie Jones" <ejones@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the response I got from Support.

Eddie-
        Sorry to take so long to get to you... you are not alone... this was
caused by a hacker who has done the exact same thing to other cobalt's like
yours. I am attempting to get them all fixed, but I will need your IP and
admin password in order to help.
Regards,

Dedicated Hosting
Support Technician

My services are not back yet

I wonder what security fix opened this door? Or will close it?

> From: "Eddie Jones" <ejones@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:08:28 -0600
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Unable To TELNET in to RAQ3 as admin or any
other user!!!
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> FYI
> I too, have the same problem.
>
> At 6:20 PM I started getting this message every 5 minutes "error: fatal:
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key.  Check path and permissions."
>
> I can not access telnet - this is the message:
> "Cobalt Linux release 5.0 (Pacifica)
> Kernel 2.2.14C10 on an i586
> telnetd: /bin/login: No such file or directory
> ."
>
> I can still create sites with the GUI and I can publish a site with
> FrontPage.
>
> The server is co-located and call to support got me a confirmation that
GUI
> work and they would get the telnet back tonight.
>
> I am still getting that email every 5 minutes.
>