what does this sendmail message in Logwatch showing? hacking?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 6 14:28:30 UTC 2006


M E Fieu wrote:
> Hi. Can you help me to take a look what is mean by the following sendmail message in Logwatch
> showing??  how the sendmail show this message??  how do they key in chenkai1`ms64.hinet.net ?  And
> also what is the forwarding error message??  I don't have /root/.forward file at all.  
> 
> Forwarding errors:
>     /root/.forward.localhost: Group writable directory: 1 Times(s)
>     /root/.forward: Group writable directory: 1 Times(s)

What are the permissions on / and /root ?

# ls -ld / /root
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 May 23 16:22 /
drwxr-x--- 10 root root 4096 Jun  6 15:26 /root

Looks like sendmail is complaining about at least one of them being too 
lax (i.e. group-writeable).

Paul.




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