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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:23:08 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
Cc:        Riley <rileyjmc@pacbell.net>, FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: chkrootkit help
Message-ID:  <20021008102308.GB376@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20021007131203.L83742-100000@fubar.adept.org>
References:  <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPKEPCGPAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net> <20021007131203.L83742-100000@fubar.adept.org>

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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:33:04PM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Riley wrote:
[snip]
> > Oct  7 03:13:56 aji sendmail[91248]: g97A2rnm091248: SYSERR(root): coll=
ect:
> > I/O  error on connection from [203.48.40.139], from=3D<News@ineedhits.c=
om>
> > Oct  7 08:45:13 aji /kernel: file: table is full
> <snip>
>=20
> OK, most of these look IO related...  But what's this mean?
>=20
> > Oct  7 09:23:28 aji inetd[93322]: pop3/tcp: root: no such user
> <snip>
> > Oct  7 09:30:53 aji /kernel: pid 93340 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> > (core dumped)
>=20
> If 'root' really doesn't exist, then who is uid 0?

It might well be that the POP3 service does not authenticate against
the system passwd file; think 'virtual domains'.  There might be no user
named 'root' in the virtual domain requested, even though there is such
a user on the local machine :)

G'luck,
Peter

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