Hi Martin, Today I noticed that I have /home/ANONYMOUS on my system, owned by nobody:nogroup and world readable/writable.
It took me an hour to check all logs, compare to other systems etc. to
find out if somebody broke into my system. At the end I found the
creator of that directory by grepping /var/lib/dpkg/info.
Please: Don't do this! Especially you can't be sure that foo's home is
in /home/foo - there are umpteen schemes where to store home
directories. Quoting fhs.txt.gz from the debian-policy package:
3.5 /home : User home directories (optional)
Different people prefer to place user accounts in a variety of places.
Therefore, no program should rely on this location. If you want to find
I'd urge you to upload a new package ASAP as I expect that I am not the only
person who thinks that an unknown directory in /home is a sign for a cracker
on the system.
BTW: Your homepage notes that you worked for ASH!? Coming from the Atari world
I am curious what you were doing there ;)
Thanks and Greetings
Torsten
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