George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Either the program he is running is suid root (look for a file owned by root
> with the s set in the file permissions when you do an ls -l on the file.) Or
> you have sudo or some such that is allowing to execute certain programs as 
> root.

Hmmm... But suid programs don't log like that.  And /etc/sudoers only
has entries for blp and root, not eric (the user).

> Still, it would not hurt to change the root password.  Someone could have
> guessed that user's password and might be using the account.

The root password is a string of random characters, and all the
login's on his account have come from his computer, not from any other
one.
-- 
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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