From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZqC7-0003Rl-9L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:08:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0DE41C05E; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7283A1C12E for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so2022447wyb.40 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=0l/akTngWf0zkNyxrWRYAeuEktYviEGxzslMXxxtpyI=; b=bMwOWvdRa7gyKteaPX5Zh91B0lUJU2V3hjaoyrOCacrsYsaXoJGFiwO+1oKF4TsPZn LdBPkf5udKa0zWxOtqkWcbbEJLedC/OZ9G/0CVIJZl4FYKm4PY+XBzLoEfJf9tQHa14n HKxyOPyExOFSiP3aG/54bfgluGgGBs4L1MDNw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=k3ZJ2+0uEIrKaRU9S8KPp/m9OyfXS0Fh9P74Osk5z1T1B1MdQ71uPNr5FUyT0nUtT8 laRyMeMqJmhRfPQued+JGpqnBdwQYchwRvXn/IOO9Ol052qoifZWABRVVasYF75F3sv+ S2Qh1hfccHFIgHcghkiKE060D0ifR9emfo1+o= Received: by 10.227.132.66 with SMTP id a2mr2375194wbt.81.1308859459078; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ej7sm1479077wbb.53.2011.06.23.13.04.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:03:14 +0200 Message-ID: <2794747.NKb9JUykxC@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1753528.vfYlfvXcaL@eve> References: <1370928.tS5hQM40xH@nazgul> <3228639.SJ34fNAWLC@nazgul> <1753528.vfYlfvXcaL@eve> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8d79ef4ac6eac963d81e51dc7c6bd1db On Thursday 23 June 2011 10:22:47 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:02:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday. You know > > that notice on the console when you get sudo wrong? It says the > > incident "will be reported" > > > > OK. But to whom? On my shell boxes it gets reported to me. And > > yesterday this is what it said: > > > > : Jun 21 11:55:25 : : 1 incorrect password attempt > > ; TTY=pts/194 ; PWD=/some/path ; USER=root ; COMMAND=init 6 > > > > 500 concurrent sessions on that box is routine, it's a major > > gateway server. That poor user has not recovered yet. > > You mean, he (or she) will eventually recover? > > Am curious though, why the attempt for a reboot? It happens about once a week on average - most of those users have multiple telnet sessions open from the Linux machine to Cisco routers. Every time so far they really do want to run sudo, but type it into the wrong terminal. Or worse, they use PuTTY and right-click - PuTTY deals with the cut buffer very differently to the norm on Windows, and right-click doesn't give the usual context menu - by default it's the paste function -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com