topic Re: log message in Operating System - Linux

log message

Lorenzo Facello — Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:30:56 GMT

I found this message in /var/log/messages:
"pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner UID != 0"
Can you suggest something?

Re: log message

Sergejs Svitnevs — Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:00:16 GMT

/ is owned by root:adm and not root:root.

Sergejs

Re: log message

Balaji N — Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:43:50 GMT

on my RHL8.0 box, / is owned by root:root
-b-

Re: log message

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:13:33 GMT

I don't think its serious, but you can change the ownership, presumably without risk.

chown root:root /

before the colon is userid after the colon is group id.

You can also probably ignore this message, though this is not how Linux creates permissions on the root directory out of the box.

It was probably manually changed, or changed by a script.

SEP

Re: log message

Paul Sperry — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:51:41 GMT

chown root /
chgrp root /

should take care of the message