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Special Forums Cybersecurity How can someone hack into a Linux server ? Post 302827681 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 30th of June 2013 11:35:36 AM

06-30-2013

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What services do you use, what ports do you have open? If you are not using a web server what is the account www-data for? Any service that is running on the server and that can be approached from the Internet by some port number, can be used for a hack and can be vulnerable. If there is a weakness in a service / daemon, than an attacker could potentially acquire the access rights of the user that is used to run that daemon, bypassing any strong password authentication you might have in place..

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sbuild-apt

SBUILD-APT(1)							   Debian sbuild						     SBUILD-APT(1)

NAME

       sbuild-apt - run apt-get or apt-cache in an sbuild chroot

SYNOPSIS

       sbuild-apt [-h|--help | -V|--version] CHROOT (apt-get|apt-cache) [ARG1 [ARG2 [ARGn...]]]

DESCRIPTION

       sbuild-apt runs apt-get(1) or apt-cache(1) inside the specified chroot, along with any additional arguments.

OPTIONS

   Actions
       -h, --help
	      Display this manual.

       -V, --version
	      Print version information.

   Chroot selection
       CHROOT The  chroot  to  run  the  command in.  Note that 'o', 's', 't', 'u' and 'e' may be used as abbreviations for 'oldstable', 'stable',
	      'testing', 'unstable' and 'experimental', respectively.

   APT options
       apt-get
	      Run apt-get.

       apt-cache
	      Run apt-cache.

       ARG    Additional arguments to pass to apt-get or apt-cache.

EXAMPLES

       To update the APT package lists in the unstable chroot:

       % sbuild-apt unstable apt-get update

       Note that sbuild-update(1) is a more convenient method for doing the above.

AUTHORS

       Roger Leigh.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       apt-cache(1), apt-get(1), sbuild(1), sbuild-update(1), sbuild-upgrade(1).

Version 0.63.2							    18 Aug 2012 						     SBUILD-APT(1)