Re: How to inentify local source of connection (program and user)

2008/11/30 akuda <[email protected]>
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I found some unidentified outgoing connections (UOC, instead of
> UFO) from one of my linux machines (gentoo, firewall by vuurmuur.org via
> ipTables). Those UOC occurs soon after boot time, even though I closed all
> services. These are DNS calls.
>   So I asked my friends full-time admins, how to check which program
> requests access to internet, and what user started this program. If, for
> example, RIAA would come to some University telling that from their IP
> someone is downloading "Lilo & Stitch" illegally, the admin should be able
> to tell who turned on bittorrent :) . And what stroke me was the fact, that
> they actually didn't know! They asked me to hunt for those UOC, and then
> type netstat with some options, to get the path to the binary, and locate in
> someone's home directory (the bittorrent client won't be probably installed
> as general bin for all users :) ).
>   Any other idea how to do it? Can I force linux to log who and how is
> requesting a outgoing connection?
>

Hi,

Have you tried "lsof -i'?

Kind regards,

Herta

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