Re: unix compliance checks - file ownership

"Renaud Deraison (lists)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Doug Nordwall wrote:

> right, and my point is not that there is a problem with the  
> compliance check that says "hey, you have two uid 0 accounts" (that  
> one is quite correct in this regard) but rather when presented with  
> 2 uid 0 accounts, it misassigns the owner of the file. In fact, it  
> choses to view the ownership of the file as wrong, even through it  
> is quite correct, even though it gets the info from the file _as a  
> numeric uid_.

You're correct. We do the reverse lookup ourselves and this causes  
problems in this particular case (much like a 'ls -l' on a file could  
show it as belonging to root or to myroot, depending on how the local  
OS performs its own lookups). I'll see if/how this can be improved in  
a further revision of this plugin.



				 -- Renaud
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