Re: New user for logcheck
>>>>> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
Herbert> Perhaps a more sinister person might actually modify the
Herbert> memory of the daemon in question to do something else.
Herbert> Let's take another one of my packages as an example,
Herbert> pidentd. If it were using a shared account, then you
Herbert> could do what I just said, and if this host were a
Herbert> trusted host (as in other hosts are relying on identd on
Herbert> this machine to authenticate), well you've just spread
Herbert> the infection.
That is something I forgot. I think it would be easy to do so using the
"attach" command in gdb. AFAIK Once the program is under the control
of gdb, then you can do anything you want with it.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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