A system administration utility has recently been installed at the SCO Openserver (UNIX) servers of our bank. While
receiving the error log files of this utility, we have noted the following warning messages:

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />

· Alert: /etc: File Control Database inconsistency. The File Control Database may be compromised. Run Integrity
(ADM).



· Alert: Authentication database path /etc/shadow may be compromised – run integrity (ADM).



It may be noted that one of the functions performed by this utility is to copy etc/shadow to another directory for data
back-up purposes. We have objected to this practice.



I will appreciate if someone can guide me about the significance of the above errors.