1 Aug
2022
1 Aug
'22
11:08 p.m.
Before I powered down, while looking through the system logs on my poor
hacked computer, I noticed it was running chronyd, because it
complained. It is an old Fedora 13 system. It runs ntpd. That's bad.
But, on the VM and different box I am on on now, running Fedora 33, I
get:
[gary@entertain Mail]$ man -k date
date: nothing appropriate.
[gary@entertain Mail]$ man date
[gary@entertain Mail]$ man man
Where man date returns a man page. And according to the man page for
man:
man -k printf
Search the short descriptions and manual page names for the keyword
printf as regular expression. Print out any matches. Equivalent
to apropos printf.
Obviously man -k doesn't work.
I've been noticing more and more cruft like this. All kinds of things,
especially at the command line, where you can see, are broken.
I'm temporarily working from my entertainment system.
In reading so far, it looks like this is some kind of SSH key attack.
Makes me wonder why the default permissions in .ssh are what they are.
I must be missing somehting because the articles seem to call the .pub
file the private key. One even had a graphic with xxx.pub circled, to
show me where the private key is.
-Gary
2 Aug
2 Aug
1:21 p.m.
"Evil cannot be uninstalled".
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 5:09 PM <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
Before I powered down, while looking through the
system logs on my poor
hacked computer, I noticed it was running chronyd, because it
complained. It is an old Fedora 13 system. It runs ntpd. That's bad.
But, on the VM and different box I am on on now, running Fedora 33, I
get:
[gary@entertain Mail]$ man -k date
date: nothing appropriate.
[gary@entertain Mail]$ man date
[gary@entertain Mail]$ man man
Where man date returns a man page. And according to the man page for
man:
man -k printf
Search the short descriptions and manual page names for the keyword
printf as regular expression. Print out any matches. Equivalent
to apropos printf.
Obviously man -k doesn't work.
I've been noticing more and more cruft like this. All kinds of things,
especially at the command line, where you can see, are broken.
I'm temporarily working from my entertainment system.
In reading so far, it looks like this is some kind of SSH key attack.
Makes me wonder why the default permissions in .ssh are what they are.
I must be missing somehting because the articles seem to call the .pub
file the private key. One even had a graphic with xxx.pub circled, to
show me where the private key is.
-Gary
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3:58 p.m.
I'm throwing out the system drive. I bought a new drive for $50. The
data for my VM's is on a separate raid disk(s). I'll check that out
after I set up the new system disk, which may take awhile due to other
commitments.
My old system is turning into George Washington's axe.
-Gary
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 07:21:55AM -0600, Linus Sphinx wrote:
"Evil cannot be uninstalled".
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 5:09 PM <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
> Before I powered down, while looking through the system logs on my poor
> hacked computer, I noticed it was running chronyd, because it
> complained. It is an old Fedora 13 system. It runs ntpd. That's bad.
>
> But, on the VM and different box I am on on now, running Fedora 33, I
> get:
>
> [gary@entertain Mail]$ man -k date
> date: nothing appropriate.
> [gary@entertain Mail]$ man date
> [gary@entertain Mail]$ man man
>
> Where man date returns a man page. And according to the man page for
> man:
>
> man -k printf
> Search the short descriptions and manual page names for the keyword
> printf as regular expression. Print out any matches. Equivalent
> to apropos printf.
>
> Obviously man -k doesn't work.
>
> I've been noticing more and more cruft like this. All kinds of things,
> especially at the command line, where you can see, are broken.
>
> I'm temporarily working from my entertainment system.
>
> In reading so far, it looks like this is some kind of SSH key attack.
> Makes me wonder why the default permissions in .ssh are what they are.
> I must be missing somehting because the articles seem to call the .pub
> file the private key. One even had a graphic with xxx.pub circled, to
> show me where the private key is.
>
> -Gary
>
>
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