Re: strange auth log
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:27:53 +0100
R <repasi.tibor@chello.hu> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've some strange lines in my auth.log :
>
> Jan 5 19:45:57 panda PAM_unix[500]: bad username [ ]
> Jan 5 19:46:00 panda login[500]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on `tty1' FOR `UNKNOWN',
> User not known to the underlying authentication module
> Jan 5 19:46:05 panda PAM_unix[500]: bad username [ ]
> Jan 5 19:46:07 panda login[500]: FAILED LOGIN (2) on `tty1' FOR `UNKNOWN',
> User not known to the underlying authentication module
> Jan 5 19:46:12 panda PAM_unix[500]: bad username [ ]
> Jan 5 19:46:14 panda login[500]: FAILED LOGIN (3) on `tty1' FOR `UNKNOWN',
> User not known to the underlying authentication module
> Jan 5 19:46:32 panda PAM_unix[500]: bad username [^IZCXCGH^[[19~ ]
> Jan 5 19:46:35 panda login[500]: FAILED LOGIN (4) on `tty1' FOR `UNKNOWN',
> User not known to the underlying authentication module
> Jan 5 19:48:22 panda PAM_unix[2729]: bad username [[p[d[d[c[c
> `...,,mmnnbbb ]
>
> Anybody an idea what this is? I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.20, and
> these are the last lines in the log before my linux box crashed, after 19:48
> any connection to the host was timeed out.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Tibor
>
I'm most interested by this part:
`...,,mmnnbbb
which is in a straight line of keys on the keyboard..
Do you have a cat?
Luke
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