Re: mail and security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions
> about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...)
>
> but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago,
> when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user
> nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should
> change my password.
Actually, it was proably a cron job running updatedb(1), wich is the
command used to update the locate(1) database. If you havn't discovered
locate(1) yet, cheak it out, it's a really useful command.
-Levi
P.S. Most holes in un*x (linux included) aren't password related.
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