su: (to nobody) root on none

[Eugene Sevinian]

This string frequently appears in my auth.log. Does it mean that something 
wrong with security?  

Thanks in advance,

Eugene Sevinian


Cosmic Ray Division
Yerevan Phisics Institute
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Armenia

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Re: su: (to nobody) root on none

[J.H.M.Dassen]

On Jun 10, Eugene Sevinian wrote
 This string frequently appears in my auth.log. Does it mean that something
 wrong with security?  

Probably not. It is most likely a result of your system running
/etc/cron.daily/find, which updates the database used by locate; this
update is done as nobody for security reasons.

HTH,
Ray
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