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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.azstarnet.com!news.cais.net!news.cais.com!dialin_1 From: jsloan@livnet.com (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: daily insecurity output Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 00:33:59 GMT Organization: LiveNet Lines: 38 Message-ID: <43t0bs$jct@news.cais.com> References: <43s7er$g3c@despina.neptune.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.138.8.101 X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:977 comp.mail.misc:22311 comp.mail.sendmail:20547 In article <43s7er$g3c@despina.neptune.com>, tom@neptune.com (Tom Techoueyres) wrote: >Hi > >I run BSDI on a pentium 120 and I use it for my mailserver. The following is a >message sent to the system administrator. Does anybody knows what it means? > > >Checking home directories: >user mario home directory is owned by maria >user coco2020 home directory is owned by 121 >user daniel home directory is owned by 122 <---- more of the same -> >user alina home directory is owned by 122 >user bruce home directory is owned by 123 > > >I would appreciate any help. > >Thanks, > >Tom Techoueyres >tom@neptune.com Yes, It means someone with root access edited either the /usr/home/* directories, or the user ID's in the /etc/passwd file (more than likely the latter). You need to go and chown all the user directories and the files within them as well as the /var/mail/* files to the correct user. +----------------------------------------------+ | Jim Sloan jsloan@livnet.com | | Kailen Information Services & Systems | | 4555 Dora Cir Norfolk VA 23513-5333 | | Ph: 804-855-2556 Fx: 804-855-1974 | +----------------------------------------------+