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RE: [cobalt-users] Have I been hacked ?



> and in my messages logfile, I have the following
>
> Feb 17 13:15:10 raq3 useradd[5442]: new group: name=named, gid=25
> Feb 17 13:15:10 raq3 useradd[5442]: new user: name=named,
> uid=25, gid=25,
> home=/var/named, shell=/bin/false
> Feb 17 13:15:22 raq3 in.qpopper[7038]:
> Active_Monitor_69@localhost: -ERR POP
> EOF received
> Feb 17 13:15:22 raq3 telnetd[7041]: ttloop:  read: Broken pipe
> Feb 17 13:16:57 raq3 named[24405]: reloading nameserver
> Feb 17 13:16:57 raq3 named[24405]: Forwarding source address

Gilles,

I am not sure about this, but I ***THINK***...

...that the BIND upgrade (did you recently install this?) creates a new
'named' user so that the bind daemon will no longer run as root. This
user's home directory would logically be /var/named and would logically
not have shell access, which is what's reflected in your logs.

I *guess* that if you upgraded BIND, these are expected messages. No
clue why your POP3 daemon quit, though...

HTH,

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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