hopeful Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Hi :o I updated with urpmi auto-update last night, and when I booted up this morning I found a new account in the login window. The user is called MPI and I can access it using my password (the desktop I got up was the same as the one when you initially install Mandrake)!!! I am not at all sure what was updated last night, though I did see a lot of mention of something called noarch, I think, and pearl appeared in a lot of lines. Does anyone have any idea of what has happend. whether it is something I should be very worried about, and is my machine safe to use? Why has this user account been set up? I am facinated to know what has happened, it is not everyday you get a mysterious user appear on one's machine? yours Hopeful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Never heard of that happening before. If i were you i would delete that new account. Urpmi would not have done that so you had better run some checks on your system and firewall setup, change passwords etc. Open up a consol and see if that user actually logged on: last or last -10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeful Posted March 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Thank you for your help. No one had loged in. However, I have deleted the MPI user and changed the pass word on my user. Should I change the root pass word and if so how? Hopeful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 (edited) It's up to you if you want to change the password - depends on how nervous you are that your system has been compromised - can't hurt I guess. Anyway if you su into root and enter: passwd it'll then prompt you for a new password and to confirm it Edited March 9, 2005 by phunni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 I can confirm this. It just happened to me. It's late though so tomorrow I will look for any packages with "MPI" in the description. You might want to try this as well and we can compare notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 Preparing... ################################################## 1:libmpich1 ################################################## 2:rsh ################################################## 3:rsh-server ################################################## 4:mpich ################################################## Warning !! The rsh daemon is disabled in your xinetd config file(/etc/xinetd.d/rsh), please activate it. Remember that you should create a .rhosts in your home directory. Look at .rhosts in the doc directory for a sample configuration A mpi user has been created, change it's home directory to a network file system with the other nodes 5:libmpich1-devel ################################################## 6:mpic++ ################################################## [< root /home/omar > urpmq -i mpich Name : mpich Version : 1.2.5.2 Release : 5mdk Group : Cluster/Message Passing Size : 841246 Architecture: i586 Source RPM : mpich-1.2.5.2-5mdk.src.rpm Build Host: n4.mandrakesoft.com Packager : Erwan Velu (erwan@mandrakesoft.com) URL : http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/ Summary : MPICH is a portable implementation of MPI. Description : MPICH is a freely available, portable implementation of MPI, the Standard for message-passing libraries. MPICH-A Portable Implementation of MPI is a MPI Standard conforming library that was developed by the Argonne National Laboratory. It allows different processes across a network of workstations to communicate using specific message passing functions. It includes librairies, parallel debuging tools and docs. This package provides the libraries that use the standard p4 device. Don't ask me what any of that means. I would think they would've made mpi a system user so they were hidden, but maybe there aren't enough reserved UIDs for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 Weird, i wonder why it needs to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Seeing all that output posted by Steve Scrimpshire raises an interesting question. Using the Mandrake Control Center tools (rpmdrake in this case) to install software, how would a user know about all this additional output? Should I start a new topic about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Seeing all that output posted by Steve Scrimpshire raises an interesting question. Using the Mandrake Control Center tools (rpmdrake in this case) to install software, how would a user know about all this additional output? Should I start a new topic about this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> user doesnt need to know the addition output. the new user isnt a problem or anything at all to worry about. errors are reported in the gui, so its not like you lose them to the console too. its a feature not a bug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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