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Old 01-18-2008, 07:25 AM
Baho Utot
 
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I am getting this in my log file (fedora core 3)

Apr 14 21:01:03 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner
GID != 0

What is this?

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Old 01-18-2008, 07:25 AM
Bill Marcum
 
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:20:02 GMT, Baho Utot
<baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> I am getting this in my log file (fedora core 3)
>
> Apr 14 21:01:03 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner
> GID != 0
>
> What is this?
>

It seems to be saying that someone other than root owns /.
ls -ld /



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Old 01-18-2008, 07:25 AM
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Default Re: pam error message

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:42:04 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:20:02 GMT, Baho Utot
> <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>> I am getting this in my log file (fedora core 3)
>>
>> Apr 14 21:01:03 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner
>> GID != 0
>>
>> What is this?
>>

> It seems to be saying that someone other than root owns /.
> ls -ld /


Ah Ok.

Yes the group user owned it. A simple chown root:root / fixed it.

I don't know how it happened.

Thanks


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