Re: NetBSD-3.1 was attacked: Bug of SSHD or cyrus-sasl?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 05:17:13PM +0800, Water NB wrote:
> In the recent days, a cracker always attack my host.
> The cracker's IP is from Japan, Croatia and some coutries.
> But I guess it is the same cracker and remote-conrolled those hosts.
> Because he always did the same works:
> 1) try to ssh account one by one: root, postfix, ... cyrus.
> 2) at last, login successfully via account cyrus.
> 3) install a program psyBNC 2.3.1 under /tmp and run it.
> 4) sometimes he changes the password of cyrus.
> 
> Question 1) Is it a bug of sshd?
> Yesterday, I change the password of cyrus to 16 characters which contain
> digit, symbol and  capital/lowercase letter, So I think it is more
> secure.
> But this morning I found the cracker still logined the system after only
> two tries.

Did you check for .rhosts, .shosts for authorised_keys files the
cracker could have setup to get back without password.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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