On 11.01.2013, at 12:00, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:48:20 -0800 > From: James Pearson <[email protected]> > To: varnish-misc <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: New user account named "varnish" appeared out of the blue > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Excerpts from eric schefter's message of 2013-01-10 11:17:51 -0800: >> Derar usres, >> >> I'm running OS X 10.6.8 >> >> I installed Bitnami, and then uninstalled it. >> One day later, a new user account appeared on my Mac with the name varnish. >> Is it possible that that account was somehow created by the BitNami >> installation? >> I'm worried that I've been hacked, and can't find any info on this. >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> Eric > > BitNami includes an installer for Varnish[0]. If you installed, say, > Wordpress[1] or Rails[2], you would've gotten Varnish installed as well as > other stack components. > > I can think of no reason why anyone maliciously accessing your machine would > install Varnish on it. > > HTH, > - P > > [0]: http://wiki.bitnami.org/Components/Varnish > [1]: http://blog.bitnami.org/2012/07/bitnami-wordpress-now-with-varnish.html > [2]: > http://blog.bitnami.org/2012/08/rubystack-now-with-rails-327-and-varnish.html >
Thank you for the links. I can find no information that says that a user account would be created automatically with the name "varnish", and without the administrator's (my) knowledege. In addition, Bitnami and Wordpress state that varnish is disabled by default, and I didn't enable it. I did install Wordpress as well. Sorry to ask the question again in a different manner: Does varnish create a new user account in os x 10.6.8 (when enabled) which one sees when logging into the computer? If not, I can only think that I'm dealing with another source of this mysterious user account (hacker or other software). Thank you so much for your time, Sincerely, Eric _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
