Jim K wrote: > I saw slashdot had a note that skype accesses the /etc/passwd file. > Because I have used skype occasionally I am somewhat concerned. As a > quick and dirty script would this detect such access: > ls -l --time=atime shadow >>somelogfile > ls -l --time=atime passwd >>somelogfile > ls -l --time=ctime shadow >>somelogfile > ls -l --time=ctime passwd >>somelogfile
Yes it will do what you want. Even better, use the stat command, which prints all three timestamps together. $ stat /etc/passwd /etc/shadow File: `/etc/passwd' Size: 1687 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fe09h/65033d Inode: 31852572 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-08-27 20:19:09.000000000 -0700 Modify: 2007-06-20 07:52:34.000000000 -0700 Change: 2007-06-20 07:52:34.000000000 -0700 File: `/etc/shadow' Size: 1070 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fe09h/65033d Inode: 31852515 Links: 1 Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 42/ shadow) Access: 2007-08-27 20:17:01.000000000 -0700 Modify: 2007-06-20 07:52:34.000000000 -0700 Change: 2007-06-20 07:52:34.000000000 -0700 -- Bob Miller K<bob> [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug