Re: [cobalt-users] stupid permissions issues w/chkrootkit??

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Roy A. Urick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:03 pm, Roy A. Urick wrote:
> > > After realizing that my RaQ4  may not be as safe and sound locked down
> > > behind the corporate Firewall w/IDS, I decided to drop a copy of
> chkrootkit
> > > on it. I was able to download, unpack and compile per the readme no
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > However, when I try to run it (as root), I first get a "permission
> denied"
> > > error. Ok, no biggie. I chmod to 744 (was 644) and then it says "no such
> > > file or directory".  I am lost.
> > >
> >
> > Did you cd to the directory containing chkrootkit.
> > Then issue
> > ./chkrootkit
> sorry, I guess I wasnt totally clear. thats the command that is resulting in
> the two error messages.
>
>  I saw the owner/group of that file was admin/admin (the user that uploaded
> it) but when I try to chown it to root(thinking that is the problem), it
> returns an "invalid user" result.
>
Well you probably need to recompile it.
first su to root change everything in the directory to root.root
su -
cd the-directory
chown root.root *
Then compile it
make sense
then run it..
./chkrootkit

Gerald
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