Wes Morriston wrote:
On a several occasions, somebody has managed to break into my networked SuSE Linux box and do some damage. On two occasions, the damage has made it impossible for me to log in to my own site.
Can anyone advise me about the best method of preventing this sort of thing?
I can't say what they tried to do; BUT I've been reading that most hacks into linux are done by creating a "buffer overflow" in a program to get root access. On www.freshmeat.com they have posted a patch for linux kernels to protect against this. I havn't tried it, all I know is that it is there. The filename is: ecure-linux-06.tar.gz It was freshmeat during the last week, check all days. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e