Re: strangelog
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Steven Barker wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>
> > This weekend I got a strange log:
> >
> > Unusual System Events
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra su[3584]: + ??? root-nobody
> > Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra PAM_unix[3584]: (su) session opened for user
> > nobody by
> > +(uid=0)
>
> This is root (uid=0) becoming nobody. It's surely a cron job that is setup
> to change user to nobody before running. The locate package runs updatedb
> as nobody every day, for example.
Ah, k! Thanks for the quick reply!
--
Rudy Gevaert -- rudy@zeus.rug.ac.be
Beifeld's Principle:
The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive
young female increases by pyramidical progression when he is
already in the company of (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3) a
better-looking and richer male friend.
-- R. Beifeld
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