Re: Re: [LIH] Virus in linux????????

["Rahul Jindal" <rahulj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry buddy tried all you suggested, no success.
the shell for root is already /bin/bash

and the default behaviour for ctrl-alt-del is the same as is in my personal
machine shutdown -t3 -r now

what might be wrong?

i'm not aware if you noticed this

> 1. IF WE TRY TO LOGIN AS ROOT THE FOLLOWING HAPPEN
>
>     IF THE PASSWORD IS THE SAME AS THE ADMIN HAD SET IT - THE SCREEN WOULD
> SIMPLY CLEAR, WITHOUT GIVING ANY MESSAGE.
>     IF WE ENTER A WRONG PASSWORD, THE EXPECTED login incorrect APPEARS.
>
>     apparently the "virus" scans for the actual password.

So how do i login as admin, lilo: linux root=/dev/hda2 rw single?

thanks anyway

regards
rahul
----- Original Message -----
From: "shubhendu" <97co266@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india-programmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: [LIP] Re: [LIH] Virus in linux????????


>
> >
> > Hello all,
> > something really strange happened today, strong enough to shake me, so
don't
> > mind the crooked language below.
> >
> > we have linux 6.2 installed on the computers in our lab. the admin
logged
> > onto a computer 8:30 in the morning and left the login in the root user
a/c.
> > after sometime we discovered that the system won't just let us perform
the
> > admin tasks. we could still login with other a/c names and work on the
> > computer as normally as ever. we even started the X. only the admin
> > functions wouldn't work.
> >
>
> it seems that y'r login shell for the root account is changed in
> /etc/passwd check it whether it is /bin/bash or not
>
> try following
>
> reboot the system : by doing h/w reset
> <> on lilo: prompt write
>
> LILO: linux root=/dev/hdaX rw single
>
> <> replace X with root partion no ..
> <>edit y'r /etc/passwd file
> <>come back to prompt
> # init 3
>
>
>
>
> >
> > 2. IF WE TRY TO RESTART THE COMPUTER BY DOING THE FOLLOWING
> >         A) PRESS CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> >         B) reboot
> >         C) SHUTDOWN -H 0
> > THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE APPEARS
> >
> > "You don't exist anyway. Go away".
> >
>
> this might have happened due to change in /etc/inittab where default
> action for the ctr-alt-del is defined ,the command to be executed
>
>
> i hope this will help ,
>
> pls correct me if a'm wrong somewhere
>
>
> shubh
> rec-surat
>
>
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