[lug] Weird directory in users home dir
Justin
glow at jackmoves.com
Tue Jun 19 12:31:11 MDT 2001
I ran across this oddity while searching for a suspected cracker on my
shell server. The users home directory has a directory / in it which if
cd'd to will go to the root directory. It is not a link or anything,
but it looks like it might have a space or two in front of it. I'm
afraid to delete this directory or the users account directory in case
it has been booby trapped somehow. Any ideas?
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[root at oldschool long]# pwd
/home/long
[root at oldschool long]# ls
/ README.jackmoves@ ftp@ mail/ #you can see the / dir here
[root at oldschool long]# ls -l
total 8
drwxr--r-- 3 556 users 4096 Jun 16 19:28 / #again
lrwxrwxrwx 1 556 users 28 May 15 14:36
README.jackmoves -> /home/httpd/README.jackmoves
lrwxrwxrwx 1 556 users 13 May 15 14:36 ftp -
> /home/ftp/pub/
drwx------ 2 556 users 4096 May 15 14:36 mail/
[root at oldschool long]# ls -a
/ ../ .bash_profile .screenrc ftp@
./ .bash_logout .bashrc README.jackmoves@ mail/
[root at oldschool long]# cd #i typed cd (tab) to list my dir options
.bash_profile .screenrc ftp
.bash_logout .bashrc README.jackmoves mail
#wierd thing above is that the dir showed as just spaces???
Could they have just touched this file named / and made it appear like
something bad? Thanks for any ideas...
Justin
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