Hacked?

mikeshn · 03-12-2004, 01:05 PM

I'm running Fedora at home for about 2 months.

I'm still login as root (alway keep one window open as root), but I cannot login as root from another window and to another account

Also when i try run command as root su , I get the error message below:
[root@localhost root]# su
su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted

About two weeks ago I open firewall.

Also, I know for sure that pasword for mike is 123456
[mike@localhost mike]$ su
Password:
su: incorrect password
[mike@localhost mike]$

When I try to login got the error message.

What can be wrong?

witeshark · 03-12-2004, 01:53 PM

From this I really I really don't see enough to get past a guess, but as root you should be able to set any permissions. Not sure why you would post a paswd, only you need to know that. And lastly, run as root as little as possible and never on line.

XavierP · 03-12-2004, 01:57 PM

Looks to me as though you are saying that you login as root and then open a window and try to su to root. That won't work - su is to become root, if you are already root there is no point using su.