Should these files be setuid?

John Chambers jc at trillian.mit.edu
Fri Jan 19 10:05:31 EST 2001


Derek D. Martin, Unix/Linux Geek, writes:
| use RPM (if your system uses RPM) to check whether or not they've been
| modified, a la:
|
|   rpm -V pam

Hmm ... When I try this here, what I get is:

: rpm -V pam
..?.....   /sbin/pam_filter/upperLOWER
:

This would seem to imply that there's something suspicious about this
file,  but what?  The ..?.....  presumably is some sort of indicator,
and looks like a list of flags.  I checked with "man rpm", and all  I
find is:

   ...   Among other things, verifying compares the
   size, MD5 sum, permissions, type, owner and group of  each
   file.  Any discrepencies are displayed.

>From this description, you'd expect to find 6 flags, but there are 8,
so  this  is  obviously  not  a  list of the meanings of the dots and
question mark.  I don't seem to find any other clues anywhere.

Any idea how I might learn what, if anything, is wrong here?

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