[gentoo-user] bluetooth device bd address is 11:11:11:11:11:11

2010-08-09 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have a usb bluetooth device, after i plug it into the usb slot and ran hciconfig, it shows the bd address is 11:11:11:11:11:11. is it correct? or maybe the driver is not loaded correctly? -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, today when working remotely I ran nethogs and noticed suspicious network traffic coming from my home gentoo box. It was very low traffic (less than 1KB/sec bandwidth usage) but according to nethogs it was between a root user process and various suspicious-looking ports on outside hosts in

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 09 August 2010 18:25:56 Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, today when working remotely I ran nethogs and noticed suspicious network traffic coming from my home gentoo box. It was very low traffic (less than 1KB/sec bandwidth usage) but according to nethogs it was between a root user process and

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 09 August 2010 18:25:56 Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, today when working remotely I ran nethogs and noticed suspicious network traffic coming from my home gentoo box. It was very low traffic (less than 1KB/sec

[gentoo-user] Re: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 08/09/10 12:25, Paul Hartman wrote: [] If anyone has advice on what I should look at forensically to determine the cause of this, it is appreciated. I'll first dig into the logs, bash history etc. and really hope that this very happened recently. Thanks for any tips and wish me good luck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o 7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/10 12:25, Paul Hartman wrote: [] If anyone has advice on what I should look at forensically to determine the cause of this, it is appreciated. I'll first dig into the logs, bash history etc. and really hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 August 2010 17:25:56 Paul Hartman wrote: My user account has sudo-without-password rights to any command. Ouch! There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right?

[gentoo-user] GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Around 2002, I started working on a project that involved a few simple database tables, and I wanted it simple, so I used python and the gdbm module. Since then, all has been well. Now I find that not only do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C program that uses

[gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 Seamonkey weirdness

2010-08-09 Thread James
Hello, Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears all sporadically get into the act. Even just the subject window

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 August 2010 19:59:11 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 08/09/10 12:25, Paul Hartman wrote: [] If anyone has advice on what I should look at forensically to determine the cause of this, it is appreciated. I'll first dig into the logs, bash history etc. and really hope that this very

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right? sudo normally logs the command executed, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right? sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Dale
Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right? sudo normally logs the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Philip Webb
100809 Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right? sudo normally logs the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 August 2010 21:25:37 Dale wrote: Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything

[gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread walt
On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... Now I find that not only do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C program that uses the distributed libgdbm. You didn't say how long ago the problem started, but looking at the files in sys-libs/gdbm I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 09 August 2010 21:25:37 Dale wrote: Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.30 and laptop

2010-08-09 Thread William Kenworthy
I have upgraded to gnome 2.30 and while there are a few rough edges, the display is causing real problems. When I am using a projector (beamer for the yanks here :) on external vga and LCD at the same time, the screen sometimes treats the vga out as a second screen (not a clone of the first which

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 09 August 2010 17:25:56 Paul Hartman wrote: My user account has sudo-without-password rights to any command. Ouch! Having still not physically touched the machine yet, I don't know if sudo had anything to do with

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... Now I find that not only do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C program that uses the distributed libgdbm. You didn't say how long ago the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 10. August 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: Typing that long password into sudo every time I ran a command was a hassle I’ve never used sudo, and never really liked the idea of it. In fact I’m always amused and slightly annoyed by the sheer amount of sudo one can find in your typical

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/2010, at 11:44 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. August 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: Typing that long password into sudo every time I ran a command was a hassle I’ve never used sudo, and never really liked the idea of it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Keith Dart
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:07:15 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I do hope I can find some evidence that leads me to the point of entry. It would set my mind at ease. Please let us know. I'm really curious about this also. I hope it wasn't a trojaned package in portage. --

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 Seamonkey weirdness

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears all sporadically get into the act. Even just the subject window of

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
Alternatively I was running vulnerable/compromised software. My box has sshd running, root login in ssh is not allowed, and pubkey only logins (no passwords). It is behind a wireless router but port 22 is open and pointing to this box, and a few others needed by other applications. So I will