[oclug] Symbolic link question...

[bbarnett at l8r.net]

On 08-Jan-2001 Strosberg, Bill wrote:
> All:
> 
> I had a "easy target" sacrificial lamb Linux box in a DMZ cracked (I wanted
> an easy target visible), and one of the innumerable things the miserable
> little crackers did to it was manage to disable ALL symbolic links!
> 
> The files the sylinks point to are still valid, but all of the symlinks are
> reporting as invalid, and they do not work.
> 
> This has been an exercise on my part to see how long (<1 day) it took for
> the box to be compromised, and what different attacks/damage the crackers &
> kiddies would take (too many to enumerate).
> 
> Really, _really!_ think about putting wu_ftp on a box!  It appears it was
> the first door kicked in, although the box had more trojans installed than a
> gay beach after dark.
> 
> Anyone know how to take out all the symlinks on a box at once, while still
> leaving the links present in all the directories?
> 
> --
> Bill Strosberg
> 
> 

Perhaps its the ls or dir command that has been changed, and its just reporting
the symlinks as bad.




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