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тАО04-07-2004 01:56 AM
тАО04-07-2004 01:56 AM
how to understand su syslog msg
in the syslog, I saw the following message:
"
syslog: su : + tty?? root-oracle
"
what does this mean exactly?
That the 'root' user did an su to 'oracle', but why is the tty 'tty??'?
Is this because it was a script that did an su?
Ay help much appreciated
Kris
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тАО04-07-2004 02:06 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:06 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
root su'ed to oracle and was on tty?? which AFAIK means it couldnt determine the tty.
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тАО04-07-2004 02:07 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:07 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
I just tried this and it showed my user ID b/c I su'ed to root then su'ed to oracle ...
Sulog recorded my userId and not root as su'er...
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тАО04-07-2004 02:08 AM
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Re: how to understand su syslog msg
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тАО04-07-2004 02:11 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:11 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
What about rsh? Somebody doing as root (rsh system 'su oracle')?
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тАО04-07-2004 02:20 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:20 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
I log in console as user 'pete'.
Then su to superuser
su -
then su to user 'mark'...
the sulog file contains:
SU 04/07 16:14 + console pete-root
SU 04/07 16:16 + console pete-mark
No 'tty??' is shown.
'tty??' is shown when su is executed with no session attached. For instance:
su - mark -c /home/mark/list.sh
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тАО04-07-2004 02:27 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:27 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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тАО04-07-2004 02:27 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:27 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
sulog shows this:
SU 04/07 09:26 + console root-oracle
so they used a telnet session which is dangerous... check your /etc/securttys.
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тАО04-07-2004 02:43 AM
тАО04-07-2004 02:43 AM
Re: how to understand su syslog msg
Do you have dbstartup in your /sbin/init.d?