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

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 20:06:11 06/25/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 23:32:32, James Swafford wrote:

>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.

Nope, not possible.



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