JD, Great to see a new face on list.
I can so relate! New ClarkConnect box I set up last week got hacked on Wednesday and is dead today. I'll be rebuilding it again next week with a little more security in mind. Puts a real downer on your computing day when you spend all week working hard on something to have some prick break it for you. Cheers Don On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:34, jd wrote: > Hello, my names Josh and I'm new to Linux and computers in general and I > thought you might be able to help me out on a few things.I was trying to > access G.U.I front for my firewall and couldn't also the computer was > acting strangely (more than usual, I'm running Fedore Core 4 and want > to switch distro's) so I decided to reinstall as I didn't have much to > lose.With a fresh installation I was hopeful that the problem would be > remedied, all I have downloaded and installed to date are the alsa sound > library's and utillity's and the drivers for my onboard sound (realtek, > downloaded from the manufacturers site) so I dont think thats the source > of the problem.Getting back to the problem, I was looking through my > /usr/lib directory and found the following: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 1 17:51 cracklib_dict.hwm -> > ../../usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.hwm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 1 17:51 cracklib_dict.pwd -> > ../../usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 1 17:51 cracklib_dict.pwi -> > ../../usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwi > I used emacs to view the cracklib_dict.pwd file and found a huge list of > names, words etc. I'm mostly worried about my computer being used > maliciously by a hacker and was hoping you could help me out, any help > would be much appreciated. > > Thankyou, > Josh. -- Don Gould
