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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:08:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange login prompt
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10201180005560.66910-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <00db01c19fc6$ded422b0$831c1a09@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Matthew Emmerton wrote:

> Any reason why my FreeBSD machine is suddenly displaying this as it's login
> prompt?
> 
> ^ELFooo FreeBSDlogin: matt
> 
> (The carat is really a DEL symbol (0x7f), and the o's are ASCII 1 or 2
> smiley faces.)

What have you done lately? Edited anything in /etc, like gettytab?
A changed login prompt would frighten me, and I'd be inclined to
start checking on whether or not I'd been hacked.  

But maybe that's paranoia.  

	Annelise


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