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--- Begin Message ---
Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-6
Severity: normal
I got the shock of my life when I found that even with two separae users logged
under two
virtual terminals (X.org, KDE 4, from experimental), users does NOT report ANY
users logged in
on the system. This is when running "users" command from konsole.
So, I go to tty1, log in user1, user2 from tty2, user3 from tty3, etc. and
userX from X.
I try running the "users" command from both X and each tty separately, and
find that
"users" reports all users logged in from ttys; but not those loggedin on X.
Is there any possibility that the system r00ted? There is nothing suspicious so
far;
but reason I ran users was that the system is too swappy with 2 users on X; but
I have only
512 megs of RAM.
And I run firehol with the default "client-all.conf" file in
/etc/firehol/firehol.conf. So,
not easy to get cracked; unless something smart has happend. And I am on a
dynamic IP; but the
system is connected most of time. I am no security expert, so any questions to
rule out /confirm
a cracked system is welcome.
PS:- Is there is a security issue here?
KDE4 packages installed:-
ii kde-icons-crystal 3.7-2 Crystal
icon theme for KDE
ii kde-icons-oxygen 4:4.1.4-1 Oxygen
icon theme for KDE 4
ii kde-window-manager 4:4.1.4-1 the KDE 4
window manager (KWin)
ii kde4-minimal 3 the K
Desktop Environment 4, minimal applica
ii kdeaddons-kfile-plugins 4:3.5.9-2 KDE file
dialog plugins for text files and f
ii kdebase 4:4.1.4-1 base
applications from the official KDE rele
ii kdebase-bin 4:4.1.4-1 core
binaries for the KDE 4 base module
ii kdebase-data 4:4.1.4-1 shared
data files for the KDE 4 base module
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 core I/O
slaves for KDE
ii kdebase-plasma 4:4.1.4-1 plasma
widgets from the KDE 4 base applicati
ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.1.4-1 runtime
components from the official KDE 4 r
ii kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 4:4.1.4-1 core
binaries for the KDE 4 base runtime mod
ii kdebase-runtime-data 4:4.1.4-1 shared
data files for the KDE 4 base runtime
ii kdebase-runtime-data-common 4:4.1.4-1 shared
data files for the KDE 4 base runtime
ii kdebase-workspace 4:4.1.4-1 base
workspace components from the official
ii kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.1.4-1 core
binaries for the KDE 4 base workspace m
ii kdebase-workspace-data 4:4.1.4-1 shared
data files for the KDE 4 base workspa
ii kdebase-workspace-libs4+5 4:4.1.4-1 libraries
provided by the KDE 4 base workspa
ii kdebluetooth 1.0~beta8-5 KDE
Bluetooth Framework
ii kdeeject 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 script
used by KDE to eject removable media
ii kdelibs-bin 4:4.1.4-1
executables for all KDE 4 core applications
ii kdelibs-data 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1 core
shared data for all KDE applications
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1 core
libraries and binaries for all KDE appl
ii kdelibs5 4:4.1.4-1 core
libraries for all KDE 4 applications
ii kdelibs5-data 4:4.1.4-1 core
shared data for all KDE 4 applications
ii kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:4.1.4-1
transparent audio CD access for KDE 4 applic
ii kdepasswd 4:4.1.4-1 password
changer for KDE 4
ii kdepim-kresources 4:4.1.4-1 KDE pim
resource plugins
ii kdepimlibs-data 4:4.1.4-1 core
shared data for KDE PIM 4 applications
ii kdepimlibs5 4:4.1.4-1 core
libraries for KDE PIM 4 applications
ii kdeplasma-addons 4:4.1.4-1 plasmoids
for KDE 4 Plasma - main package
ii kdeplasma-addons-data 4:4.1.4-1 plasmoids
for KDE 4 Plasma - data files
ii kdeplasma-addons-libs4 4:4.1.4-1 plasmoids
for KDE 4 Plasma - public librarie
ii kdeprint 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 print
system for KDE
ii kdetoys-doc-html 4:3.5.9-2 KDE toys
documentation in HTML format
xorg packages installed:-
dpkg -l *xorg* |grep ii
ii xorg 1:7.4~4 X.Org X
Window System
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-3
Miscellaneous documentation for the X.Org so
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4~4 the X.Org
X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.3-1 Xorg X
server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.4~4 the X.Org
X server -- input driver metapacka
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.1.0-1 X.Org X
server -- evdev input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.3.1-2 X.Org X
server -- keyboard input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.3.0-2 X.Org X
server -- mouse input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.15.0+git20080820-1 Synaptics
TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86
ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.8.1.6-1+ X.Org X
server -- Wacom input driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.4~4 the X.Org
X server -- output driver metapack
ii xserver-xorg-video-apm 1:1.2.0-2 X.Org X
server -- APM display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-ark 1:0.7.0-2 X.Org X
server -- ark display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.10.0-1 X.Org X
server -- ATI display driver wrapper
ii xserver-xorg-video-chips 1:1.2.0-2 X.Org X
server -- Chips display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-cirrus 1:1.2.1-2 X.Org X
server -- Cirrus display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.0-2 X.Org X
server -- fbdev display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-i128 1:1.3.1-1 X.Org X
server -- i128 display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.0-1 X.Org X
server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-mach64 6.8.0-3 X.Org X
server -- ATI Mach64 display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-mga 1:1.4.9.dfsg-2 X.Org X
server -- MGA display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-neomagic 1:1.2.1-2 X.Org X
server -- Neomagic display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.12-1 X.Org X
server -- NV display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.903+svn713-1 X.Org X
server -- VIA display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-r128 6.8.0-2 X.Org X
server -- ATI r128 display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.10.0-1 X.Org X
server -- ATI Radeon display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 1.2.4-1 X.Org X
server -- AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display
ii xserver-xorg-video-rendition 1:4.2.0.dfsg.1-3 X.Org X
server -- Rendition display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3 1:0.6.0-2 X.Org X
server -- legacy S3 display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3virge 1:1.10.1-2 X.Org X
server -- S3 ViRGE display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-savage 1:2.2.1-3 X.Org X
server -- Savage display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion 1:1.6.0-2 X.Org X
server -- SiliconMotion display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-sis 1:0.10.0-2 X.Org X
server -- SiS display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-sisusb 1:0.9.0-2 X.Org X
server -- SiS USB display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-tdfx 1:1.4.0-2 X.Org X
server -- tdfx display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-trident 1:1.3.0-2 X.Org X
server -- Trident display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-tseng 1:1.2.0-2 X.Org X
server -- Tseng display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-v4l 0.2.0-2 X.Org X
server -- Video 4 Linux display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.0.0-2 X.Org X
server -- VESA display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.5-1 X.Org X
server -- VMware display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-voodoo 1:1.2.0-2 X.Org X
server -- Voodoo display driver
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.9-0exp1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:01:33PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
I got the shock of my life when I found that even with two separae users logged under two
virtual terminals (X.org, KDE 4, from experimental), users does NOT report ANY users logged in
on the system. This is when running "users" command from konsole.
So, I go to tty1, log in user1, user2 from tty2, user3 from tty3, etc. and userX from X.
I try running the "users" command from both X and each tty separately, and find that
"users" reports all users logged in from ttys; but not those loggedin on X.
That is normal; the GUI logins do not typically create utmp entries. If
you want them to, you can take it up with those packages. "xterm" does
create utmp entries, so you should see something if you use that
terminal program.
Mike Stone
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