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Re: Removing FIred admins
From: Cael Abal <lists2 () onryou com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:14:28 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael T. Harding wrote: | Anybody know of a checklist or guide to removing access across the entire | organization for a "retired" admin? | Mixed environment including Linux, Unix, Windows, Cisco, Nortel Wow. Nightmare. I would expect this is exactly what you didn't want to hear, but you're in an awfully scary situation. Imagine every sneaky thing a cracker could do -- subvert your IDS, implement Ken Thompson-esque login/compiler bugs, etc... And then consider that they might've happened any time in the past few years and have by now completely infiltrated your backup media. Good luck. You're really at the mercy of your (ex) admin. All you can hope to do is take care of the obvious stuff -- disable his accounts, change the passwords of any shared accounts / devices, etc. The alternative (if you can call it that) is to treat your network as though it was compromised and go from there. One choice is relatively inexpensive, the other will result in a network you might be able to trust. take care, Cael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFALE8kR2vQ2HfQHfsRAiolAJ41aFarNC7bLN6v053o/aiTrvqJ9ACg13u5 43iaIpkz0zjXMbpj0wJSrTE= =YPoR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Removing FIred admins Michael T. Harding (Feb 12)
- Re: Removing FIred admins Cael Abal (Feb 12)
- Re: Removing FIred admins Raymond Lillard (Feb 12)
- Re: Removing FIred admins Volker Tanger (Feb 13)
- Re: Removing FIred admins Benjamin Schweizer (Feb 13)
- Re: Removing FIred admins Paul J. Morris (Feb 13)
- Re: Removing FIred admins gadgeteer (Feb 13)
- Re: Removing FIred admins Cael Abal (Feb 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Removing FIred admins James Patterson Wicks (Feb 12)
- Re: Removing FIred admins gadgeteer (Feb 12)
- RE: Re: Removing FIred admins Steve Wray (Feb 13)
- RE: Re: Removing FIred admins Michal Zalewski (Feb 13)
- RE: Re: Removing FIred admins Steve Wray (Feb 13)
- Re: Removing FIred admins gadgeteer (Feb 12)