Re: setuid.changes

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:55:58PM +0000, Martin Clarke wrote:
> apologies for posting what will most likely be considered trivial
> but I have been curious about for some time is the format of the
> setuid.changes file that is generated by cron scripts on my machine
> I have read the checksecurity man page but am still kinda curious
> as to what exactly that file is showing me...

It's a diff between the old and new configuration of setuid programs on
the system. The fields on each line are as follows:

  inode number
  permissions
  number of hard links to the file
  owner
  group
  size
  last modification time
  file name

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]