(a)
wsbs03# ps axu
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
...other processes...
root 12823 0.0 0.0 48 0 ? IW 23:02 0:00 <defunct>
(b)
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE NAME
<defunct> 12823 root cwd VDIR 130,0 512 90633 /
<defunct> 12823 root T00 VREG 130,0 32768 93828 /
<defunct> 12823 root T01 VREG 130,2 24576 86893 /usr
<defunct> 12823 root T02 VREG 130,2 516096 86862 /usr
<defunct> 12823 root T03 VREG 130,0 4096 95539 /
<defunct> 12823 root T04 VREG 130,2 40960 86955 /usr
<defunct> 12823 root 3u inet 0xff64e08c 0x0 TCP *:5120
<defunct> 12823 root 4r VREG 130,4 623 64258 /usr/share
Figure 2: (a) An intruder process that was running with super-user privileges; (b) using the lsof command.
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