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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardened: setuid
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:24:59
Message-Id: 44B55577.5020906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] hardened: setuid by James
1 James wrote:
2 > Hello
3 >
4 > I was performing a routine security audit using:
5 >
6 > find / -user root -perm -4000 -print
7 >
8 > which found these peculiar files:
9 >
10 > /usr/athena/bin/su
11 > /usr/athena/bin/otp
12 > /usr/athena/bin/rcp
13 > /usr/athena/bin/rsh
14 > /usr/athena/bin/rlogin
15 >
16 >
17 > upon greater inspection this is most troubling:
18 >
19 > -rws--x--x 1 root root 108416 May 4 19:52 /usr/athena/bin/su
20 > -rws--x--x 1 root root 105640 May 4 19:52 /usr/athena/bin/otp
21 > -rws--x--x 1 root root 95840 May 4 19:52 /usr/athena/bin/rlogin
22 >
23 >
24 > Are these part of a normal gentoo system running hardened, or is it
25 > time to re-install this machine?
26
27 Have you tried checking which (if any) packages own these files? Have
28 you built anything yourself outside of portage that could have installed
29 them?
30
31 Thanks,
32 Donnie

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