X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=GpPa8r_G1w8A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=tjGTnxhU_IvR4Ed2ShAA:9 a=GXF9Nr7PTAr4RAvF-NYA:7 a=zckXDHCPi1X6vjG7FpTJHuMYyNAA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=buB1NfXUTBUA:10 a=IfQ-iFkkCvMA:10 Message-ID: <4CA16051.904@charter.net> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:26:09 -0400 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 AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: What does this look like to you folks? References: <4CA15E8B DOT 5070602 AT charter DOT net> In-Reply-To: <4CA15E8B.5070602@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. > > -- > 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 > > 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 -- 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