topic Re: intruder alert in Operating System - HP-UX

intruder alert

viks — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:59:19 GMT

dear all, i have a b1000 workstation in which if i login with an nis user and execute "whoami" i get the message "intruder alert " .but the same user works with the other machines.what could be the problem?

Re: intruder alert

KapilRaj — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:24:24 GMT

How didi you set up nis client ?. Is there any change in /etc/passwd , group files between your machine and other machines

kaps

Re: intruder alert

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:27:09 GMT

Check the permissions on the /etc/passwd file. It should be readable by EVERYONE.

See the following thread for more details.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x4193663ce855d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Re: intruder alert

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:46:39 GMT

It seems to be the permissions of /etc/passwd

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xa897e7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Later,
Bill

Re: intruder alert

leereg_4 — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:36:47 GMT

Please see the attachment information.

Thanks a lot for all your help!