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07-08-2004, 09:02 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Copenhagen
Distribution: MDK 10;Ubuntu 5.04
Posts: 25
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New user suddenly appeared....
Hi.
Has anyone ever experienced that a new user suddenly appears in the login box? Is there anyway of finding out if I had an unwanted intruder on my computer? Is it possible that a newly installed program made a new user?
Thanks
-Henriette
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07-08-2004, 09:07 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Distribution: Gentoo Linux
Posts: 30
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There are some programs that can create new users at install. If you have any recently installed programs, post them...
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07-08-2004, 12:49 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Fedora
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Could you also post the username as well as info from /etc/passwd regarding the new user. Don't post the encrypted password if it's kept there.
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07-09-2004, 05:44 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Copenhagen
Distribution: MDK 10;Ubuntu 5.04
Posts: 25
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#nalg0rath: I have a lot of newly installed programs since I just installed Linux 2 days ago. Among them are Openoffice, Guarddog, Gaim, Firefox and some programs for work.
#Capt_Caveman: Hmm, I deleted the user as soon as I discovered it. The file at this stage doesn't look like it contains anything suspicious
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07-09-2004, 08:15 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Fedora
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You don't happen to remember what the username and user ID number was?
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07-14-2004, 04:12 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Copenhagen
Distribution: MDK 10;Ubuntu 5.04
Posts: 25
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Not really. It was a 3 letter combination starting with the letter C - but that's it.
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