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

["Roy A. Urick" <rurick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] stupid permissions issues w/chkrootkit??


> 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
>

woohoo! that worked. Thanks guys.
(*and the system was clean too)

> Gerald
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