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Re: [LUG] ssh editing knownhosts

 

On 10/08/10 19:21, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
> 's what I do when a site has changed - although I tend to simply delete
> the known_hosts file from time to time...

What is the advantage in this?

> I discovered a clients server with a hacked version of sshd installed
> recently... Still no idea how they got in or got root privs. to make the
> changes. Very frustrating.

Hmm, curious I wonder why "sshd", I can understand hacking the "ssh"
client, since then one can harvest passwords and passphrases.

But I'd have thought sshd had few advantages, maybe they were adding a
backdoor, or to configure keylogger when a shell is spawned. Did you
identify the malware?

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