Strange Idle User Listed in who, finger

[tr-huso]

I would suggest you run chkrootkit and some other programs just to see if you 
have had someone in your network.
Doesn't have to be the solution, but I would check anyway. And it's always 
good to know that you have a clean system.


-t-

>===== Original Message From For users of Fedora Core releases 
<fedora-list at redhat.com> =====
>I've noticed an additional user among those I usually see in GKrellm.
>Typically, when I am in Gnome, I see one user (me), plus additional
>users for each virtual terminal I have open. When I am in KDE, I
>typically see two users (both me), plus additional users for each
>terminal open.
>
>Recently however I see an additional user showing up. One of them is
>strangely "me" but idle for 123d. This is odd since my system has been
>running only for ten days. Here is some related output:
>
>[charshaw at mufasa charshaw]$ finger
>Login     Name            Tty      Idle  Login Time   Office     Office
>Phone
>charshaw  Clint Harshaw  *:0             May  3 09:44
>charshaw  Clint Harshaw   pts/1          May  3 11:18 (:0.0)
>charshaw  Clint Harshaw   pts/5    123d  Apr 28 08:22 (:0.0)
>[charshaw at mufasa charshaw]$ who -u
>charshaw :0           May  3 09:44   ?         13153
>charshaw pts/1        May  3 11:18   .         15142 (:0.0)
>charshaw pts/5        Apr 28 08:22   ?         18655 (:0.0)
>
>Now when I try to kill the process associated with the April 28 date, I
>get the following:
>
>[charshaw at mufasa charshaw]$ kill 18655
>bash: kill: (18655) - No such process
>[charshaw at mufasa charshaw]$ kill -9 18655
>bash: kill: (18655) - No such process
>
>What's going on here? I've google'd for a solution, and learned to try
>the things outlined above, but that doesn't seem to be the fix.
>
>Is there a way to remedy this without a reboot? I asked on #fedora, and
>the general response was this was nothing to worry about, but I can't
>help but want to know what I can do, as well as what the cause is.
>
>Thanks very much,
>Clint
>
>--
>Clint Harshaw  <clint at penguinsolutions.org>
>
>
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