suspicious: after reboot I get a request: Authentication required to run /bin/sh as the superuser

Chris Luck chrisluck.bvhg at gmail.com
Sun May 1 01:50:08 UTC 2022


On 28/04/2022 08:17, robert rottermann wrote:
> Hi there
> for some times now, I get a request to authenticate as "super user" each 
> time I login:
> 
> Authentication required to run /bin/sh as the superuser
> 
> how can I check what causes that request?
> in ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile.d find nothing obvious.


Are you using Dropbox?

Googling for "Authentication required to run /bin/sh as the superuser", 
gets numerous hits relating to Dropbox.

-- 
Regards,
Chris Luck





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