Re: [SLUG] Funnies with logoutd

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 04 2005 - 20:51:02 EDT


On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On 6/4/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:

[logoutd]

> > Evidence shows logoutd is part of the shadow password utilities. Their home
> > "page" is ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/ . Maybe somebody didn't
> > like being logged out, and exploited a bug in some program to overwrite
> > /etc/rc5.d/S20logoutd ?
...
> I may have trashed it while I was doing some stuff. I had already been to
> that address above, I was kind of hoping I would just fine the binary and
> stick it in there and get it going right again.
>
> Looks like I have to do a download and build the whole thing...

Can you do the apt equivalent of RPM's "--verify"? Or maybe use mc to grab
just /etc/rc5.d/S20logoutd from the shadow password utilities archive?

But building it from source should be pretty straightforward, if your
computer presents a reasonably-sane environment.

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