Date: 17 Aug 2004 11:17:46 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mark <boxend@redtick.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logins Message-ID: <448ycdhjz9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200408171508.i7HF832Z018959@redtick.homeunix.com> References: <200408171508.i7HF832Z018959@redtick.homeunix.com>
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Mark <boxend@redtick.homeunix.com> writes: > I've beend getting the sshd login attempts, like everyone else so I've been > watching the logs close, this is the first time to see this item in /var/log/messages. > Aug 14 04:15:00 chillico su: _secure_path: /nonexistent/.login_conf is not owned by uid 65534 The machine doesn't have a '/nonexistent/' directory, does it? It is important security-wise that such a directory must *not* exist. > I've looked in the passwd file and groups, there is not a uid of 65534 listed. There *should* be; it's "nobody". And it shouldn't be in the wheel group. > I installed rsync last week to backup some windows computers during the weekend, this would have been > during one of the backups, but the other five would have triggered the same msg, just thinking outloud here. Unless /nonexistent got created during the process...
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