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Item 232: What just happened to my account?

Entered by cyfapunk on Sat Jan 8 11:20:19 2005:

I noticed a funny program called "kojn" running by an account
called "smart". I emailed staff about it. I then went looking
at what it was doing. It appeared to be a password cracking
program. I emailed staff again.

The next thing I noticed was that my session was disconnected
and I couldn't log back in. The "trouble" login no longer
works too. Luckily this does.

So what the hell is going on?
19 responses total.
#1 of 19 by cyfapunk on Sat Jan 8 11:23:39 2005:

Sorry for the typo, the program name was "john" and not "kojn".

#2 of 19 by keesan on Sat Jan 8 18:05:22 2005:

I also emailed staff about this same problem and I have no trouble logging
in so your problem may be entirely unrelated.

#3 of 19 by cross on Sat Jan 8 20:52:19 2005:

Your account should be okay.  I locked user `smart'.  John is a
password cracker.

#4 of 19 by cyfapunk on Sun Jan 9 00:37:27 2005:

Hi Dan,

No, I still can't get in. I just tried it now - it says
"Sorry -- your account has expired." and disconnects right away.
I tried an incorrect password and it gives the expected error
message so something else happened to my account at that time.

#5 of 19 by gelinas on Sun Jan 9 01:00:17 2005:

Odd.  If your account were locked, you shouldn't be able to use it for the
web, either.

#6 of 19 by cross on Sun Jan 9 01:11:23 2005:

Well, your shell looks okay.   Joe, did you see anything weird?

#7 of 19 by gelinas on Sun Jan 9 01:31:32 2005:

Yes, I do see something weird, and I'm checking on it.

#8 of 19 by cross on Sun Jan 9 02:45:41 2005:

Okay, I figured you might, so I didn't investigate further.

#9 of 19 by cyfapunk on Sun Jan 9 02:52:05 2005:

So what's going on Joe? I can use this OK so its not my password?
Was my account's status changed in one of the system files?
I don't think my password was up for expiration. Was someone
else hacking on the system?

#10 of 19 by gelinas on Sun Jan 9 02:56:31 2005:

I'll contact you in e-mail, cyfapunk.

#11 of 19 by cyfapunk on Sun Jan 9 04:19:36 2005:

Er, Joe how? I still can't log in to read email.

#12 of 19 by gelinas on Sun Jan 9 04:30:21 2005:

I'll work something out.

#13 of 19 by mfp on Sun Jan 9 04:37:23 2005:

Unlucky!

#14 of 19 by gelinas on Tue Jan 11 15:43:46 2005:

Guy, you should now be able to log in to read mail.

#15 of 19 by mfp on Tue Jan 11 16:39:58 2005:

Thanks, but I wasnt having any trouble; Guy was!

#16 of 19 by naftee on Sat Jan 15 09:42:03 2005:

Yeah, Guy!  Catch the right guy this time.

#17 of 19 by cyfapunk on Sat Jan 15 12:03:58 2005:

Joe, thanks very much.

BTW, who are those two idiots, mfp and naftee?
Seems their accounts should be suspended.

#18 of 19 by naftee on Wed Jan 19 08:26:17 2005:

Idiots?!  We are at least smart enough not to forget our loginids and/or
passwords; sensitive as they are.

#19 of 19 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:15:23 2006:

TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE

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