On 12/09/2007, at 4:25 PM, umair shakil wrote:
Dear Concerns,
I would like to share a very strange problem. I am from Pakistan/
Islamabad. Last month i was on trainning
from Askari Bank Limited (Juniper). Here in Askari i m running NMS--
> MRTGs using CentOs 4.4. On trainning i recieved
a call from collique saying
"when i "su -l" NMS says "root user doesnot exist". and also MRTGs
not working. well i was amazed how was it
possible. In the Evening i came back to office. I boot the machine
in single user mode and type the command;
less /etc/passwd
here when i found that user root existed, but the only thing that
was amazing is;
the spelling of root was changed from "root" to "R00t". i changed
to "root" and every thing worked.
I want to ask, what is this, this doesnot seem a garbage value or
nor corruption of passwd file. only showing someone changes this.
Here we have bank private network, only two people have access for
it me and another guy.
what are your opinions??????
This is usually done to change the root account name to something
else. This is most often done for security - as most hacking attempts
use the username root. Changing this to something else means that all
those attempts would fail. As long as the UID is set to 0, most
system things won't care that the user root is now known as R00t.
--
Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897
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