Sigh. I went to church this morning at 10:20 am. I get home around 11:30 am, go online, log onto a machine where I have screen running, and see:

jeffp@crusoe [10:25am] ~ #102> Connection closed by foreign host.

D'oh. So I try to log in. Nuh-uh. My password isn't working.

So I try the other machine. No go. So I try checking my web site. 403 Forbidden. Splendid.

So now I wait. I've emailed the sysadmin (it's noon on a Sunday -- that's great). There are backups, but I don't like the idea that someone may have cracked my password, and is now fiddling with my account.

Sigh.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: unhappy jeffy
by turnstep (Parson) on Mar 12, 2001 at 01:42 UTC
    Surely there is a phone number to call? If your account was compromised, more than likely the whole box is as well (assuming you have a virtual domain on a box physically located elsewhere). Do some digging and phone the sysadmin or anyone you can reach - they will thank you for it later if the system has been hacked.
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      The place where I log in is an ISP that I worked at for a year. I have an "honorary" shell account there. Having checked things out, the rest of the Crusoe web site seems fine, and other users' pages haven't been affected. My account appears to have been tampered with.

      And I called, but it's a Sunday, so no one's in the office. I emailed root, and used the online tech support page, but other than that, all I can do is wait.

      japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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account back! Re: unhappy jeffy
by japhy (Canon) on Mar 12, 2001 at 20:11 UTC
    Heh, it was the sysadmin. Apparently, OGRE was chewing up 30% of the CPU on the machine. Oops. OGRE's offline for now.

    japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker
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