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Re: log message

 
Lorenzo Facello
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log message

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

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

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Balaji N
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Re: log message

on my RHL8.0 box, / is owned by root:root
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: log message

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.

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Paul Sperry
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Re: log message

chown root /
chgrp root /

should take care of the message