On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:13:36PM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: > > Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with > > applause...thank you. > > > > Glad it helped. =) > > > I suppose it would be nice to know what set all of the following on > > /var/mail: > > > > opaque nodump uappnd uchg uunlnk > > > > because it sure wasn't me. > > > > Removing them allowed me to set the appropriate bit. Thanks again. > > That strikes me as really strange. Any chance another user did this or that > the box was compromised? It seems to be no small coincidence that all the > flags you listed are the ones that don't require root privileges.
I never give accounts on my personal machines to people; it is possible, I suppose, that the box was compromised; but the compromiser would have to have worked his way in through a LinkSys NAT box that doesnt' forward anything to that box; additionally, no services are listening on it: no sshd, no MTA, no inetd, nothing. I dont' even log in over my LAN...to get to the console or use X, I use a KVM. The only other account in /var/mail was gdm...it was set to user:group 92. Shrug; I don't know....until last night and your email, I had mentally glossed over the entry in the chflags and ls man pages referencing ls -lo...so I don't see any way I could have set those flags. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
