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Subject: Re: A Unix question. (Slightly off-topic)

Author: James Swafford

Date: 20:32:32 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 20:13:16, Slater Wold wrote:

>A ran into a problem today with a system running SCO 5.0.5m.  I can not figure
>it out, and it's driving me nuts.  (Yes, I have looked on the 'Net, I can't find
>anything.)
>
>I logon as root, and I go into "/programs" and type "ls" I see a list of files.
>They are owned by several different users, with several different permissions,
>types, sizes, etc.  I chmod *everything* 777.  (From root, I type, "chmod -R 777
>programs".)
>
>Then I logon as another user, slate, and go into that same exact directory
>"/programs" and type "ls".  It gives me a list of *SOME* of the files.  (About
>70%.)  If I type "ls <anything>*" it will tell me "no such file or directory".
>
>Basically, there are a handful of files, that are virtually "hidden" to all
>other users except root.  Even after chmod'ing everything 777.
>
>

Is this machine connected to the net?  Is it secure (as if that were
possible)?  One idea, though I admit is probably not the case, is to
be sure you aren't the victim of some kind of root kit.  In other words,
are you sure your "ls" is legit?

I found out the hard way a couple of months ago that my "top" and "ps"
commands weren't. :)


--
James

>Any ideas?
>
>I appreciate any response.



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