From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4560 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2010 09:33:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 4547 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Oct 2010 09:33:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mta21.charter.net (HELO mta21.charter.net) (216.33.127.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:33:37 +0000 Received: from imp11 ([10.20.200.11]) by mta21.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.09.02.04 201-2219-117-106-20090629) with ESMTP id <20101001093336.GZNX3705.mta21.charter.net@imp11> for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:33:36 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([68.189.253.98]) by imp11 with smtp.charter.net id DMZb1f00A288sH805MZb4B; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:33:35 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=GpPa8r_G1w8A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=hOpmn2quAAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=QcCFVyUrLGQMDrt_JN8A:9 a=SRNl2dnPxKR8dxlapmgA:7 a=wi19KQX3CWHrPCDBLKoFFpnuHyEA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=buB1NfXUTBUA:10 a=IfQ-iFkkCvMA:10 a=hUswqBWy9Q8A:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 Message-ID: <4CA5AAEF.4020107@charter.net> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:33:00 -0000 From: SJ Wright User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: What does this look like to you folks? References: <4CA15E8B.5070602@charter.net> <4CA16051.904@charter.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 Gregg Levine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:26 PM, SJ Wright wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >> 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 >> >> > > Hello! > Well I ran Google on that term, and came up with the Wikipedia page. > ((Which I won't cite here.)) But don't you mean Mr Churchill the PM > actually? (He also was entitled to use that entry into the peerage.) > > You may not have anything to worry about, however I am not a security > expert as far as Cygwin goes, I'm more of a user on it, and even on > Linux. > > I do suggest you change your passwords for both that system and for the SSH one. > > If that's not possible then make it impossible for the system to be > reached that way online via SSH. > ----- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > Anyone else care to chime in/advise/suggest something? Presently I'm doing a context search of my Cygwin folder for the word "laugh" (the outstanding non-command word or phrase used in the harmless hack). I've already scanned, by eye, grep and two developer-type text editors, my dotfiles and the default ones in /etc/defaults/ -- though frankly this last seems a little too obvious a route for anyone who's going to drop a 'sleeper' script that fouls up a shell alias to take. Ever notice how hackers and "script kiddies" tend to make targets of things people already are complaining about? Windows, numerous websites, and this, the latest maintenance upgrade of Cygwin. (But then, this is just an observation -- the only proof I have is in what happened to the change-directory alias known as "smith" in my .bash_aliases file, since modified.) SJ Wright -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple