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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