RE: Ssh break that claims it was me?

["Viktor Larionov" <viktor.larionov () salva ee>]

Hi!

Well I would start from simply talking to the client and checking the IP adresses from where the access was granted.
I'd bet my pants that the IP-adress is a chinese socks proxy or smth. like this.

And of course first of all check that it was really your user who did that. (if the .bash_history file under your home 
directory is valid, you can easily see all the commands your user has executed for the past time)

And of course logs, logs and once again logs, you will definetly find a way of prooving this by just carefully 
examining the auth logs, .bash_history file, cvs logs, etc.
If it's the CVS repo what was deleted, and a busy CVS repo then by means of CVS error logs you can definetly determine 
the time when it was done. Etc.


regards,
Vik

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-----Original Message-----
From: makkalot () gmail com [mailto:makkalot () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:20 PM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Ssh break that claims it was me?


Hi all i dont know if it is the right place to write that but didnt know what 
to do...
The case is as follow : 
I'm a freelancer programmer and work for other people from distance,therefore 
they give me ssh access to their servers and i fix their stuff. After a few 
days ago i was hired to fix some django/apache stuff in a server. I fixed all 
the stuff and got my money.Ok that was the story part here is the message i 
got from client today :
"
I know you deleted the svn repo and also trac...
I don't know why you chose to go in that route... very bad
if you were not happy about something you could have 
asked for more money... we could have worked together
to resolve anything... in any case.. I will report this to RAC
form the system logs and we will go from there... 
I still don't know why you did this!!!! "

Ok obviously i didnt do that, becaus i dont have any reason to do so. Is there 
a way i can prove it wasnt me ? Some fingerprint ssh values? Please any help 
is appreciated, thanks in advance ...

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