Re: [Someone hacking via gnome?]

[jesse andrew cmu edu (Jesse F. Hughes)]

Anthony Richardella <zorc3@netscape.net> writes:

> You might want to turn anonymous FTP off. There's the possiblity
> that who ever it was could have grabbed your /etc/passwd file.

Can they really get anything useful there?  I just tried that myself,
from another machine in my LAN.  I logged in anonymously and fetched
the /etc/passwd file (really /home/ftp/etc/passwd, I guess).  It
doesn't contain any non-generic user names or any passwords.  So can
they really get anything harmful?

Is this a stoopid question?

Sorry, I know that this has strayed from the gnome topic a bit, but I
appreciate any help ya'll can offer.  Feel free to tell me to go away.

-- 
Jesse Hughes

"You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot
of stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.