Ack! I've been rooted...

Evan Klitzke eklitzke.lists at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 08:11:27 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:42 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote:
> > You can skip steps 1 through 3.
> > Backup all data that you know for certain is still safe, wipe the disk entirely,
> > and do a clean reinstall. If the box was rooted, there is no way to determine
> > the extent of the intrusion, and therefore any attempts to replace solely the
> > compromised aspects of the system would be irrelevant.
> > --
> 
> Will rsync operate without cp, ls, etc?

Of course it will. There are standard C routines for reading and writing
to disk, getting directory contents, etc. These are dependent on the
presence of glibc, not the coreutils.

-- Evan Klitzke




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