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Re: [cobalt-users] OT brief note on: CERT AdvisoryCA-2003-25Buffer Overflow in Sendmail



> > > it's an issue...  it's often very easy to backdoor
> > > software...  I even built
> > > a su program that sends the ip and passwd away in the mail
> > > for the next time
> > > the /bin/su dialog comes around...  it took about an hour.

> Since I'm the only person in my company with root access, I'd benefit
> greatly being notified when /bin/su dialog is called up.
> That's ingenuity.
> Rich

The thing that becomes really interesting is you can see the passwords and
how much they know...  or just log it.... hec.. anything you want...  I will
see if I can find programming time to change it to a simple notify (mail to
root) with just the current connections to the box...

Zeffie
http://www.zeffie.com/
needing more software to build into raqs