On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:01 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > I vaguely remember installing something regarding cracking tools... > > however, I'm not positive. I became concerned when I stumbled across > > a directory tree /var/lib/cracks. It appears to be password cracking > > tools. Just want to make sure that's something that got installed > > intentionally, and that I haven't been hacked... > > I don't find /var/lib/cracks but there is a /var/lib/crack provided by > the crack password cracking program/library. > > Try this sometime (as root): > > yum whatprovides /var/lib/crack (replace dir with the one you're > curious about) > > This shows the packages that match that file/dir, in this case crack. > You can then use yum info crack to get more information about the > package. > Thanks. I was having problems installing an RPM earlier and I saw this directory (yeah... I added an "s" to the end. It *is* /var/lib/crack) and panicked... I rebooted since I suspected there might be a stale lock file somewhere and got Yumex running and sure enough, that's what it was... the password cracking dictionary. :-) Sorry for panicking... thought maybe I'd been hacked or something. Thanks John
