A strangely compromised Linux box

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 11/06/2009 - 06:43

A.P. Lawrence: "A customer reported that a Linux machine used for ssh access (to in turn give telnet access to an ancient SCO machine) was refusing logins.

I asked him to try logging in as root at the console; he was unable to do so."

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