[ Please reply _below_ the relevant quoted material. Thanks. ] On 13:28 23 Feb 2002, Rupendra Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | thanks that solved the problem | permissions were: | -rwx------ 1 root root 46224 Aug 28 13:16
Good. | but how did it happen i never entered the /lib dirctory as root A mystery. But this is what you must find out so that you can prevent it happening again. | bye the way i am running squirrelmail as webmail and i have observed | that some of my squirrelmail users became owners of some randomly | choosen files in /bin and /usr/bin. i cannot doubt these users and | they do not have shell access. I would guess some bug or hole in the webmail side of things. Such an app often runs with root privileges for at least part of its operation (in order to become whichever user is access the email) and as such has the power to do arbitrary things anywhere on the system by accident if badly coded. Which files were getting changed? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Artificial intelligence won't make a micrometer out of a monkeywrench. - Rick Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
