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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:56:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E84EC1E4-A610-4387-A1CD-8CA7CECA369E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511C644F.2060407@gmail.com>


On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote:
> ...
> I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at
> logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat & reinstall.

Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but does this machine have any ports open to the internet?

This thread reminds me of how we sometimes hear of logfiles full of many ssh attempts made by script kiddies and botnets.

Stroller.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-14  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 19:29 [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user Daniel Frey
2013-02-13 22:51 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-02-14  3:25   ` Daniel Frey
2013-02-14  4:13   ` Daniel Frey
2013-02-14  4:56     ` Stroller [this message]
2013-02-14 16:51       ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Klos
2013-02-14 17:27         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-14 19:54       ` Daniel Frey
2013-02-15  0:15         ` Adam Carter
2013-02-15  6:44           ` Daniel Frey
2013-02-15 16:46           ` Daniel Frey

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