From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 0:32:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F2237BBE3 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3K7WJx22456 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:32:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:32:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange message -- MARK --? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is going on in my lab? Since I recently powered all machines up, several of them, but not all of them, have a mysterious message after the login promt, like this: login: -- MARK -- -- MARK -- When I pressed enter the normal login:-prompt came back. I don't see how the second line with -- MARK -- could appear, since the linefeed on the first line should have given an intruder a Password:-prompt. Is -- MARK -- a debug message? Or is MARK a person happily cracking away inside my boxes? (a 'who' gave only 'root' on the machines) The client machines are connected to a local 192.168-net with a 3.4-STABLE server between them and the world. The message does not appear on the server. The server had its last cvsup and make world at 29MAR2000, while the clients are 3.2-RELEASE (usenix '99 edition) compiled at 18MAY1999. The entire lab has moved this week and the messages appeared only some 10 minutes after powerup in the new labs. I have never seen this before in the lab and am VERY curious about it. Cheers, Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message