since it was asked the title bar had something innappropriate(eg vulgar) displayed in it. I forgret exactly what now. <div>On 8/22/06, Caleb Cushing <<a href="mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com"> xenoterracide@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>very strange.... it seems to have gone away... but I don't like it. it appears that it might be my windows box that's been comprimized (the one i'm running putty on)... to soon to tell I think when I get home I need to review some logs. I've already changed my password for my login from a different terminal. </div><div> <div>On 8/22/06, Clay Dowling <<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> clay@lazarusid.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Caleb Cushing said: > no... it reads a some sort of a DNS hostname.domainname record. but I'm > not > sure how it determines that. could be localsetting could be forward lookup > reverse lookup. am I missing anything? how would I determine. It's possible for a hacked server to lie to you about this.  Xterm allows the setting of the title bar, and PuTTy supports this feature.  There's an option under the PuTTy Windows settings to control this. > > On 8/22/06, Charles Ulrich < <a href="mailto:charles@idealso.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">charles@idealso.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Caleb Cushing wrote: >> > when using putty to ssh where does it get the info from  that's in the >> > title bar? seems I've been cracked. I need to be more paranoid. but >> > first I need to figure out how much damage was caused. >> >> At a guess, it's probably reading the escape sequences mentioned here: >> >> >> <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html </a> >> -- >> Charles Ulrich >> Ideal Solution, LLC -- <a href="http://www.idealso.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.idealso.com</a> >> > _______________________________________________ > linux-user mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> > -- Simple Content Management <a href="http://www.ceamus.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.ceamus.com</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user </a> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>