[NTLUG:Discuss] Social Engineering Attempt

[Robert Citek]

On Friday, Feb 4, 2005, at 11:52 US/Central, Courtney Grimland wrote:
> This isn't Linux-related, but maybe someone here can offer me some 
> advice.
>
> This morning I got a call on my company's tech support line from a guy 
> pretending to be an employee, asking for the admin password to our 
> mail server for maintenance or some such.

This doesn't answer your question, but is related.  One thing you can 
do on linux is setup sudo, so that there is no admin password or if 
there is very few people know what it is.  People access root or other 
admin tasks via sudo and their own password, which they probably are 
less likely to give out.

Just a thought.

Regards,
- Robert
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