Root password changing by itself

[Todd Zullinger]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> I wonder about pranks since the OP has posted the following on the
> ubuntu list:

Well if the OP is using keys generated on a Debian or Ubuntu system,
the keys are very well likely the broken kind.  If the box is
connected to the net, it's possible that a random bot has already
begun attacking such keys.

For ~78mb you can have a set of most of the common keytypes that could
be generated on Debian/Ubuntu systems over the past few years:

http://www.metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/

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