Re: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER
"Scott Taylor" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.admin |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Oh, and yes there is a NOUSER user in the system. On Wed, July 5, 2006 07:53, Scott Taylor wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I have a CentOS 4.2 server that gives me these error messages in my > /var/log/secure file, I realise that these are SSH attacks, but where does > the extra line "Could not get shadow information for NOUSER" come from? > This doesn't make any sense. I have many servers running CentOS 4.2, but > don't get this error message on any others. I hate junk in my logs. Is > there any way to get rid of it? > > Invalid user guest from ::ffff:210.210.4.60 > error: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER > Failed password for invalid user guest from ::ffff:210.210.4.60 port 55073 > ssh2 > > Cheers. > > -- > Scott > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html