HOWTO Disable OVH backdoor

[Jungleboy]

OVH Dedicated servers (don't know if this is valid for VPS) have a backdoor for OVH personnel so they can get access to your server. If you want to prevent them from being able to login with root rights follow the following easy steps:

edit /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 and remove the two lines beginning as follows:
from="213.186.50.100"
from="::ffff:213.186.50.100"

next edit /etc/crontab and remove */1 * * * * root /usr/local/rtm/bin/rtm 10 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

then rm -rf /usr/local/rtm

BEWARE: do this at your own risk since it violates the TOS from OVH so you might lose your support.

 

[Whoo]

This is totally bullshit this post, you just copied that from another board. They don't have a backdoor to access your server, it's just to monitor things if something might go wrong they can get a technician to fix it. It has been discussed alot already on the official OVH forums and everything is explained there

 

[michigan033]

Yeah really.

 

[Azo]

This is totally bullshit this post, you just copied that from another board. They don't have a backdoor to access your server, it's just to monitor things if something might go wrong they can get a technician to fix it. It has been discussed alot already on the official OVH forums and everything is explained there

Exactly.