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Who read the password hashes?

A file-integrity alert says /etc/shadow was read at night on app-01. Use auth.log to find the account, the time, and where that session came from.

  • Terminal mission
  • Beginner
  • 3 objectives
  • 0 of 3 solved

Briefing

The file-integrity monitor on app-01 raised an access alert for /etc/shadow at 02:14. Nobody on the operations rota was on call.

Every sudo command is logged to /var/log/auth.log with the account, the working directory, and the full command line. Start there.

analyst@app-01

app-01 · Linux log triage

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