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Special Forums Cybersecurity securing a remote box Post 20964 by thehoghunter on Wednesday 8th of May 2002 11:39:29 AM
Old 05-08-2002
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The server is located over 1000 miles away...
It is great that we can telecomute but once in a while, you just have to be there. Our company laid off the only guy we had to do our servers 1300 miles away. The next time one needs an upgrade or service, one of us may have to go there. We have remote access to the console which still allows us to change things all the way down to the boot prom. If you don't have this type of access, you might want to get the equipment and software together and take a road trip.

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It's a Solaris 7 box with many of the system files safe on nfs
I don't remember who said in these forums, but I'm sure they will respond back with horror at this statement. NFS is not considered secure - it probably the easiest way to get access into your server.

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I've got a backup of everything I had access to from a week prior to the hack
You better be sure that is prior to the hack or you may miss the files the hacker changed to backdoor you. That is why it should be built from scratch.
thehoghunter
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

remote-filesystems

remote-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				     remote-filesystems(7)

NAME

       remote-filesystems - event signalling that remote filesystems have been mounted

SYNOPSIS

       local-filesystems [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  remote-filesystems event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all remote filesystems listed in fstab(5).  moun-
       tall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with  other
       activity.

       This event is typically used by services that must be started to manage remote filesystems.  When it occurs, local filesystems such as /usr
       may not be mounted.  For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient.

       This event will never occur before the virtual-filesystems(7) event.

EXAMPLE

       A service that wishes to be running once remote filesystems are mounted might use:

	      start on remote-filesystems

SEE ALSO

       mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21						     remote-filesystems(7)
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