From: SJ Wright <sjwright68@charter.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: What does this look like to you folks?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA16051.904@charter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA15E8B.5070602@charter.net>
SJ Wright wrote:
> First, a little background:
>
> In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the
> same alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got
> the following as a return:
>> [/cygdrive/c/blu/newest]
>> mintty-cygwin>>smith
>> + laugh
>> + pwd
>> /cygdrive/c/blu/newest
>> + cd /cygdrive/c/taiga/
>> + pwd
>> /cygdrive/c/taiga
>> + cd /cygdrive/c/taiga
>> [/cygdrive/c/blu/newest]
> When I went to view .bash_aliases in nano, the alias 'smith' (changed
> at my prerogative for discussion on this list) was missing. As far as
> I know, it was there as recently as 5 AM today; I believe I used it
> around noon today (27 September) as well.
>
> Should I be worried? I've never heard of Cygwin being a target for
> --the precise term escapes me at the moment so I'll say-- this kind of
> intrusion, if that's what it is. As for potential "routes in," I have
> sshd running on cygrunsrv but nothing else. Time to change my login
> password, maybe?
>
> Steve W.
>
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Of course, I edited the path for the alias back into .bash_aliases
(didn't want to give up the convenience, after all) but was prudent
enough to use another word than "smith" for it. {Think first Duke of
Marlborough.}
SJW
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-28 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 8:14 What does this look like to you folks SJ Wright
2010-09-28 10:23 ` SJ Wright [this message]
2010-09-28 10:31 ` What does this look like to you folks? Gregg Levine
2010-10-01 9:33 ` SJ Wright
2010-10-01 9:49 ` SJ Wright
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