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Re: [suse-security] What does this line mean?
- From: josh <dorqus@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:09:03 -0400
- Message-id: <19990916160903.R24149@xxxxxxxxx>
Matthias Pigulla wrote...
> I came across several lines in /var/log/warn that look like:
> "[timestamp] [hostname] login[26456]: ILLEGAL ROOT LOGIN on 'ttyp[n]'
> from '[hostname]'"
> I wonder what this message does mean?
It means that someone has been trying to login to your machine over
the network as the user root, from [hostname]. The ttyp[n] terminals
are network ones, while tty[1-6] are local logins, at the console.
josh
> I came across several lines in /var/log/warn that look like:
> "[timestamp] [hostname] login[26456]: ILLEGAL ROOT LOGIN on 'ttyp[n]'
> from '[hostname]'"
> I wonder what this message does mean?
It means that someone has been trying to login to your machine over
the network as the user root, from [hostname]. The ttyp[n] terminals
are network ones, while tty[1-6] are local logins, at the console.
josh
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