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Anthony Green (HTAL) (ninja@hutch.com.au) wrote:
: Umm, while on irc .. a friend pasted a complete dir listing of my linux
: box to me .. without having an acct on my system, and i didnt see anything
: in messages or syslog which i tail -f ..
: 
: anyone know ho whe did it? .. he wont tell me :P

I don't know how it was done offhand, but there are lots of bugs that
you should keep track of if you're permanently net-connected.  Try
the linux security mailing lists and archives, or have a look at:
     http://bach.cis.temple.edu/linux/linux-security/Linux-Alerts/
           http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jtmurphy/

A better way to deal with these problems for a dial-up machine is 
to add the following line in /etc/hosts.deny
ALL: ALL
which denys access to all incoming connections.  Read the man pages
on hosts.allow and hosts.deny for more information!

Hope this helps!
Adrian.
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