Does anyone else have a crack
sub directory in /etc
(ie /etc/crack
)? I'm worried my computer's been hacked.
1 Answer
As wjandrea has posited this sub-directory is from the package crack-common
. The file list that can be seen in /etc/crack from this application's package is as follows:
/etc/Crack/dictgrps.conf
/etc/Crack/dictrun.conf
/etc/Crack/globrule.conf
/etc/Crack/network.conf
/etc/Crack/rules.basic
/etc/Crack/rules.fast
/etc/Crack/rules.perm1
/etc/Crack/rules.perm1u
/etc/Crack/rules.perm2
/etc/Crack/rules.perm2u
/etc/Crack/rules.perm3
/etc/Crack/rules.perm3u
/etc/Crack/rules.perm4
/etc/Crack/rules.perm4u
/etc/Crack/rules.perm5
/etc/Crack/rules.perm5u
/etc/Crack/rules.perm6
/etc/Crack/rules.perm6u
/etc/Crack/rules.perm7
/etc/Crack/rules.perm7u
/etc/Crack/rules.prefix
/etc/Crack/rules.prefixu
/etc/Crack/rules.suffix
/etc/Crack/rules.suffixu
/etc/Crack/rules.weird
A full listing of all of the files can be seen here... The application crack
which uses this package is a password guessing program which has been installed on your system.
dpkg -S /etc/crack
?dpkg -S /etc/crack
will show you which Ubuntu package (if any) installed/etc/crack
. If no package claims/etc/crack
, then you MAY have been hacked.crack-common
.man crack
in terminal to read about it. Don't try googling you get a lot of non-software results.a