Your clock is one year slow:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 07:08:05AM -0700, shahzad sarwar wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am running Red hat Linux release .7 kernel 2.2.16-22. Problem is
> that one day, the rights of whole directory structrue changed to 777.
> With reference that no one has changed the rights. i have seen all
> the .bash_history files. when this change occured there was one prompt
> open > with root (via telnet). > So now linux is not accepting the
> root passwd ,even when i changed it from the already opned root
> prompt.
It looks like someone vandalized your machine.
Linux does not change its own permissions.
In the already open root prompt, try changing the root password
AFTER you run su - without the quotes.
# su -
# passwd root
> Is there any secuirty feature in linux that ,has changed the rights of linux box .
No. Some person did it.
By the way, on Linux and UNIX 'rights' are called permissions.
They could have used the root telnet session that was open.
They could have gotten the root password remotely because
it was given away by telnet. (Use ssh, not telnet.)
If you have "/" shared through samba as root,
any windows machine can do anything to your Linux.
>
> regards,
> shahzad
>
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Jan Carlson janc at kubwa dot com
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