I am just feeling my way around Linux (RHEL v4) as we are just converting old simulator from Solaris based to Linux based. I have many Air Force driven concerns....most based on security.

What I have is a NIS sever, which also acts as a file server (the simulator software directory is auto mounted on each machine) supporting about 12 machines.

On each of these machines we need to have a certain set of executables run as root. This has been working fine until recently…now the files do not start and I’ve noticed that when I create a file as root (or sudo)…when looking at the new file it is ownership is something like 4284824674: 4284824674
This only happens on the remote machines and not the server.

The only change I know of since the last time it work successfully was a few edits to /etc/issue and /etc/banner to a consent banenr before logging into a machine.

Have I given you enough info on my problem?

Thanks for your help
-odie

Which filesystem is it? How is it mounted? How are you connecting to the server (local or remote, ssh/telnet/etc)?
Do you have a support contract with Red Hat?

Red Hat Linux is the o/s, workstation, v4 update 4.


Each machine has the 'working' directory auto mounted through /etc/auto.name


NIS is used for centralized logins.


Get the same problem if I ssh into the machine from antoehr machine or if I log onto it directly.

-odie

Thank you, but that does not answer my questions.
By filesystem, I mean ext2, ext3, XFS, reiserfs, or something like that.
the 'mount' command will give you more information about the filesystems.
When I asked how they are mounted, I meant which mount option did you use (see the mount command)
So, you log in to root on the console directly on the machine and you create a file on a local file system and it ends up with a weird user. Is that correct?

Ok sorry...and thanks for your patience.


Still not sure if I am finding the info you asked.

using mount -l reveals a type ext3
and shows the automounts.

I am getting warmer?



"So, you log in to root on the console directly on the machine and you create a file on a local file system and it ends up with a weird user. Is that correct?"


Yes that it correct...same is true if I log in as a normal user and use the sudo command.

-odie

No problem, I'm happy to help if I can.
Please post the output of 'mount' (without argument), tell me where the file is located and post the output of 'id' when logged with the root user.