[CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Tue Jan 29 03:39:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:36:03 -0500
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> And above all, because I know many admins slack on this, and I'm
> guilty of it as well if it's not forced... ROTATE your passwords
> periodically

I have never understood this.  If I have a good, strong password that nobody
knows, how is changing it to another one an improvement over what I already
have?

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