Well, I've talked to the guy that owns that machine, and he assured me that he wasn't hacking me, and I believe him. But now the question remains, what caused this message? Any possible explanations out there?
Thanks, Gerry PS: I'm paranoid about being hacked since another machine on our network was hacked via a smail vulnerability. On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > ssh automatically tries to connect to a remote X server when a conneciton > is established, to disable this behavior(for good) recompile ssh with the > configure flag --without-x to make sure nobody can connect to your X > server or use your ssh client to connect to a remote X server. > > dont think anyone can 'hack' your X unless they already had an account on > your machine. > > nate > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > debuse >>From my Linux box at work, I was using ssh to connect to my personal > ISP. > debuse >I had X11 forwarding turned on. When I went to log out I got this > debuse >message: > debuse > > debuse >Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate... > debuse >The following connections are open: > debuse > X11 connection from shell.schwa.net port 1087 > debuse > > debuse >Is someone from that machine hacking me? If so, how would he do > this? If > debuse >not, what does it mean? I see there is a user logged onto my ISP from > debuse >that machine. What logs should I be looking at for information? > debuse > > debuse >Thanks, > debuse > > debuse >Gerry > debuse > > debuse > > debuse >-- > debuse >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > debuse > > > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ > Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ > Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ > Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ > -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > 12:30am up 140 days, 12:27, 2 users, load average: 1.99, 1.67, 1.57 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
