Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:50:42 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested addition to /etc/security Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971030194120.6034C-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971030224420.52951@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, James Raynard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 10:18:37AM -0700, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > > I'm not sure if /etc/security is a good place for it, but I think it would > > be a good idea to add this check (at least once a week) to somewhere: > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > echo "checking for invalid user or group ids:" > > > > find / -nouser -nogroup > > ------------------------------------------------- > > How about adding a check for processes run by non-existent users as well, > while we're on the subject? I've seen cases of people's login sessions > living on weeks or even months after they've left... That's odd -- the current rmuser should kill all of the user's processes (but that change didn't make it into 2.2 until 2.2.5). Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory
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