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users is a default group. I have never heard of a default man user though...
Some things to check: last <-- does this show any users that you don't know or are unfamiliar with? /etc/passwd <-- There are system users that you probably won't want to get rid of most will have /sbin/nologin for the shell. What shell does the man user have? /etc/shadow <-- does the man user have a password set? (second field) I believe !! indicates nologin
Other than that maybe check /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure...
There is a start anyway...
Originally posted by Blinker_Fluid users is a default group. I have never heard of a default man user though...
Some things to check: last <-- does this show any users that you don't know or are unfamiliar with?
no mention of man here
/etc/passwd <-- There are system users that you probably won't want to get rid of most will have /sbin/nologin for the shell. What shell does the man user have?
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
Posts: 3,660
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Perhaps you should start by saying where you found the file and what the contents are (or what the file type is)?
Is it in /tmp? If not, where?
What file type is it?
file zmanBOYRtR
What are the contents?
less zmanBOYRtR
Do you have chkrootkit or tripwire installed (apparently not)? When you do get it figured out, it would be a good idea to install some file system monitoring tools.
/tmp# file zmanBOYRtR
zmanBOYRtR: troff or preprocessor input text
/tmp# less zmanBOYRtR
.\" $OpenBSD: lpr.1,v 1.3 2000/03/19 17:57:06 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
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