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Re: Nobody user doing a find / ( -fstype ?????



> I just noticed when running top that a process owned by nobody was doing 
> a scan of / with and -fstype argument...?  I am not sure what it is but 
> can someone kindly explain me?  
> 
> Maybe I should start looking for security patches for Linux (Debian) huh?
;)

Actually, that process is part of the checksecurity script that checks
whether someone has added set(e)uid patches.

It's started from cron, somewhere in /etc/cron.daily/standard, I believe.

Ronald 


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