Root kit for ubuntu

[Karl Larsen]

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> I just had a message pop up indicating that I needed to reboot my system
> due to a security update.  This happened without my actually installing
> any updates at all.  I was just using my computer as usual.  
>
> After looking around a bit, I noticed that my grub directory had been
> updated.  Then when I stat'ed my running kernel, this is what I got:
>
>
>
> kt at searay:/boot$ stat vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic 
>   File: `vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic'
>   Size: 1747596         Blocks: 3424       IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: 801h/2049d      Inode: 3063809     Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2008-02-06 03:29:06.000000000 -0600
> Modify: 2008-01-31 21:43:04.000000000 -0600
> Change: 2008-02-06 03:29:48.000000000 -0600
>
>
> This is the second time I've had a problem like this since installing
> Ubuntu.  Is there a widely available root kit for it?  I would like to
> stick with Ubuntu, but this is getting annoying.  
>
>   
    Do you have really good passwords for both root and user? In an 
earlier day I have a good password for root and very simple for user. 
Then I was ssh to a German user who guessed my user password and was on 
my computer doing nothing real bad. But I learned you need a Good 
password on user too.

    An example of good is an old one I used Q15x25 which takes about 12 
hours to get.

Karl


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