Dubious spelling to to sorry.I also meant to add that whoever done this
is very discreet.
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.
