On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Russel and Group, > Thanks for the continuing discussion. > > > Nobody suing to root is not non-threatening! Ideally you would have a > > group wheel or root required for su to root to prevent this. Currently I > > haven't as I haven't got the PAM setup for it going yet. > > PAM is acronym for 'password authentication mode' ? > I know that BSD uses a wheel group that needs to be enacted before a su > can happen. What means are you considering doing this?
PAM has support for it using pam_wheel.so > > Also, would something be running from cron that does this every morning at > 6:23 AM? As user nobody su'ing to root, it sounds like cron bulding the slocate database. > Anyone know how I can investigate furthur? Look in /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.d -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Supercity Internet Services http://www.supercity.ns.ca
