Re: su: (to nobody) root on none
On Jun 10, Eugene Sevinian wrote
> This string frequently appears in my auth.log. Does it mean that something
> wrong with security?
Probably not. It is most likely a result of your system running
/etc/cron.daily/find, which updates the database used by "locate"; this
update is done as "nobody" for security reasons.
HTH,
Ray
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