log message

[Lorenzo Facello]

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

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

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

Sergejs

[Balaji N]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Paul Sperry]

chown root /
chgrp root /

should take care of the message