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| borepstein@gmail.com |
 Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:16 am |
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Hello everyone,
We've got an IBM ThinkPad laptop running OpenSuSE 10.3 and all of a
sudden the thing stopped mounting hot-pluggable devices. The long and
short of it was that the whole /media directory went missing. It is
obviously quite possible that that was a user error - but that is
unlikely. It is also possible - and equally unlikely - that the
machine got hacked. Barring that, what we've got is the following two
possibilities:
1) A bug in some process running as root
2) A filesystem glitch
At any rate, following me recreating the directory things seem to be
back to normal. But if you have had a similar experience, or know what
may be behind that, any insight would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Boris. |
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| houghi |
| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:45 pm |
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borepstein@gmail.com wrote:
Quote: Hello everyone,
We've got an IBM ThinkPad laptop running OpenSuSE 10.3 and all of a
sudden the thing stopped mounting hot-pluggable devices. The long and
short of it was that the whole /media directory went missing. It is
obviously quite possible that that was a user error - but that is
unlikely. It is also possible - and equally unlikely - that the
machine got hacked. Barring that, what we've got is the following two
possibilities:
1) A bug in some process running as root
That could be. I have no idea what you are running as root. Look in your
/var/log/messages and other logfiles if you notice something.
Quote: 2) A filesystem glitch
Extremely unlikely. The filesystem does not create or remove
directories.
Quote: At any rate, following me recreating the directory things seem to be
back to normal. But if you have had a similar experience, or know what
may be behind that, any insight would be highly appreciated.
Do the latest update. There was a local root exploit where local users
could become root and thus do things that a root can do.
Other then that, I supose it is basicaly a user error. I have chowned
or chmodded (forget wich) /etc.
My guess is that somebodty had root access and deleted it by accident.
That is the reason NOT to run anything as root, if you can avoid it.
That is also the reason I asked for the red root prompt in CLI.
At least that makes you aware that you are root.
houghi
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