On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:10:18 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: > Doing an rpm -Va resulted in a lot of scary messages, > S.?..... /usr/bin/passwd > being one of the most chilling. (And I thought I was very strictly > firewalled, with no unnecessary services running, except for > postgresql. Oh well...) > > Anyway, at the very least, I'd like to reinstall the offending > packages. Since there are other packages depending on them, I wonder > how this can be done without too much hassle. Would > > rpm -e --nodeps <package> > yum install <package> > > be safe? > > Also, I get a lot of > > prelink: /some/file/or/other : at least one of file's dependencies has > changed since prelinking > > warnings during rpm -Va. Is this something to be worried about? Oh YES. You'be been hacked. Recheck with "chkrootkit". Disconnect from net and re-install. --Frank Elsner
