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Re: I am not sure whether it is a bug or...
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: I am not sure whether it is a bug or... |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:21:01 -0700 |
> There was a hacker attacked my Linux box and put some files on my machine
> with user number and group number cannot be seen by a common user utility
> such as "userconf."
I am not familiar with any "userconf" program. If it is important to
the issue at hand then you will need to educate me and provide more
information. I have never heard of it.
> I tried to remove the file as root, but cannot do that. Then I
> tried to "chown root [filename]" It also not allow me to do it. I am
> not sure whether it is a bug of chown or I missed something. If this
> is not the right forum to report this. It would be greatly
> appreciated if you can suggest a right forum to find answers for
> this type of questions. Thanks.
If you suspect that it is a bug in the utilities then this is a good
forum. But if you want to generation discussion on how things work
then I suggest one of the news groups such as comp.unix.misc or
possibly you should read the faqs in news.answers. Also check out the
utils specific faq here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/
If you cannot remove the file as root or change the ownership of the
file as root then something sounds corrupted within your filesystem.
The chown program is small enough that I don't think there are any
hidden bugs there and so I really doubt it is a program bug. But it
might be something else. You would need to provide more information
before we would know.
For are more complete bug report please generate a small case where
this behavior you are seeing is illustrated. Send to the list the
details of the operating system you are using and the --version output
of the programs you are using. Something like the following.
id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
ls -ld ./filename
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 0 Feb 26 09:15 ./filename
chown root:root ./filename
ls -ld ./filename
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26 09:15 ./filename
chown --version
chown (fileutils) 4.1
uname -a
HP-UX strife B.10.20 A 9000/785 unknown
And then please use a subject that somehow relates to the particular
problem you are reporting. It is very hard to sort through a mailbox
where every subject is 'bug' or 'help'.
Thanks
Bob