Hey guys, I saw this in my VPS when checking history:

    1  chmod +x /usr/lib/virt-sysprep/scripts/0001-swapoff--dev-vda2-mkswap--dev-vda2-swapon--dev-vda2-resize2f
    2  cat /usr/lib/virt-sysprep/scripts/0001-swapoff--dev-vda2-mkswap--dev-vda2-swapon--dev-vda2-resize2f
    3  vi /usr/lib/virt-sysprep/scripts/0001-swapoff--dev-vda2-mkswap--dev-vda2-swapon--dev-vda2-resize2f

here is the content of the script:

# cat /usr/lib/virt-sysprep/scripts/0001-swapoff--dev-vda2-mkswap--dev-vda2-swapon--dev-vda2-resize2f
swapoff /dev/vda2;mkswap /dev/vda2;swapon /dev/vda2;resize2fs /dev/vda1;yum -y update;systemctl disable guestfs-firstboot;reboot

This is a new server I provisioned on my VPS in racknerd. The command looks safe, but I’m wondering if these commands were executed on its own? Or someone has logged in to my VPS? This is also not normal, isn’t it?

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Looks like stuff put in place by the VPS provider that would run on the first startup to create a swap partition and resize the main partition.

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    1 year ago

    This looks like a provisioning command to expand disk to fill allocated space of your VPS.

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    1 year ago

    From the location of that script usr lib virt-sysprep looks to be a script put in the image by the provided to do a few things on first boot. Would have thought it was normal, but you can always ask them to double check

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    1 year ago

    Remember to log out of the console, as I’ve personal experience of seeing someone at Racknerd type commands into it (presumably by mistake but possibly because that’s SOP - this was shortly before they shut down the server claiming it was responsible for a networking issue after being hacked. Never found evidence it was hacked but Linux can glitch from time to time. So it’s possible they were taking advantage of the fact I was looking at the console at the time to see what the state of the machine was and then realized I was watching.)

    Note I’m referring to the console here, not random ssh sessions. While there may be technical ways for them to hijack those, there’s not a lot of point in doing so, there are easier ways to gain access to VMs via, say, backdoor passwords.

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      1 year ago

      so what are the options for the customers like us if we don’t want them to access our server? how do i know if they logged in using a different method other than ssh?