Hi there - just had the following pop up on
daily cron messages - I am using Mandriva 2009 spring

#Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed,
#maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor...
#- Checksum changed file :
#/home/jerry/tmp/daily.6/localhost/sbin/pam_timestamp_check


I have recently added the audio software 'Lame', so wonder
if this would be the cause of this message.

How do I deal with this please? Can I just delete this file?

Is there a way of seeing what #proc I have running, not by numbers.
If so, how do I stop or get rid of any #proc that I do not want or require.

Thanks for looking

That's Mandrake's "msec"...


No, 'lame' is an audio encoder, pam_timestamp_check is part of PAM (as in 'rpm -qi pam').
No, you don't delete the file. If you don't need something then you un-install the package.
Run 'rpm -Vv `rpm -qf /sbin/pam_timestamp_check --qf="%{NAME}\n"`|grep -v '^\.\{8\};' and see if '/sbin/pam_timestamp_check' is in the output?


Completely different question. Please be verbose and specific. If you mean running unnecessary services then your (command line or UI) service interface will tell you how to stop the service and keep it from starting on reboot. If you mean other processes please show an example. Of course we could tell you to just kill it but killing processes haphazardly isn't always a good Thing.

Thanks unSpawn for your help.

All copied on the first two parts of my question.

Sorry about the last part, looking at it later should
have realized it was not the same topic.
Will google it and get more info that way.

Again, thank you for your input.