Message clarification?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:23 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> Logwatch sends me this message:
> 
> pam_timestamp_check: PAM `/var/' permissions are lax
> 
> What can it be and where can I read about such messages?
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# ls -ld /var
drwxr-xr-x  28 root root 4096 Mar 25 13:49 /var

it would appear that you changed the perms on this directory - probably
not a very good idea changing the perms of the root level folders such
as /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home

chmod 755 /var

should be all you need do unless the owner isn't root:root

Craig