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Getting New account [root] has been created with uid:[0] gid:[0] login:[/root] shell:[/bin/bash]

Posted: 25 Nov 2019, 09:59
by Orlando
Hello,

We received today a strange email about:

New account [root] has been created with uid:[0] gid:[0] login:[/root] shell:[/bin/bash]

But on the server everything seems to be fine, user not missing, wasn't deleted, scanned with rootkit hunters, etc and it doesn't seems to be compromised.

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 grep '0:0' /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

chage -l root
Last password change                                    : never
Password expires                                        : never
Password inactive                                       : never
Account expires                                         : never
Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7