What does this look like to you folks?
SJ Wright
sjwright68@charter.net
Tue Sep 28 10:23:00 GMT 2010
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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