> Now I find that my new password doesn't work. This leads me to suspect
> that one of the other people *somehow* hacked into the router and changed
> the password ON ME!
They would have had to have done it at the same moment as you.
>
> But how? No one has physical access to the box. They would have had to
> telnet into it. So my question is, could someone have made a backdoor
> into the router OUTSIDE of the !root? AND have been able to change my
> !root access as well? If this is so, then it makes my knees knock.
How do you know someone didnt telnet in or use pmconsole or rlogin to it?
> Please someone tell me how to prevent this from happening on my other two
> routers!
You can turn off telnet ROOT access. and set the # of pmconsole sessions
to 0.
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