FWIW, not even root can unmount a file system that is busy. -paul
From cypherpunks-errors@toad.com Sun Sep 1 18:17:12 1996 Subject: Re: Moscowchannel.com hack To: snow@smoke.suba.com (snow) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:09:32 -0500 (CDT) Cc: joelm@eskimo.com, Cypherpunks@toad.com Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) X-No-Archive: yes Organization: Bool Sheet Software X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7] Content-Type> : > text> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Content-Length: 689
snow wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Joel McNamara wrote:
Not really crypto, but related to the DOJ hack in a way.
Moscow Channel is a pretty slick, Russian news/commentary page. Their Web site was hacked and altered by someone who didn't seem to like Russians all Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan type tool that scans for HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions to make locating potential victims easy. Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the webserver.
A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount another directory on that node. Not a good solution.
- Igor.