Re: Strange file names

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote:

litban >I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin?

uhoh!!

litban >-rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        20720 Dec 24  1998 [

dont know what that is ..but i have it too, i cant get dpkg to identify it
..

litban >-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       107956 Feb 24  1999 a2p

part of the perl package

litban >lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Nov 16 03:44 aaaa -> host

part of the dnsutils package

litban >-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        14416 Feb 24  1999 ab

part of the apache-common package

litban >Or, does it mean that this system has been cracked?

never know..binaries can always be replaced ....once when i got cracked
the guy stuck a password sniffer in /dev (forgot the name of the
sniffer) and it was logging all the POP3 passwords..

litban >Or am I just being paranoid?

you can never be too paranoid.

nate

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