Problem while doing secure installation of solaris 8

From: Aniruddha (apal74@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/28/02 

From: Aniruddha <apal74@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:28:28 -0400

Hi,

I am trying to make the solaris 8 installation in my sun blade 2000
machine secure following the checklist in the site:

http://www.sans.org/y2k/practical/Jeff_Campione_GCUX.htm

The steps I followed so far are:

1. Stopping unnecessary boot processes
2. Tightening network
3. Disabling unnecessary administrative accounts (like adm, lp etc.)
4. Improving Logging and system and process accounting.

Before going to install SSH, I rebooted my computer, and tried looging
in as root, however, I got the following message:

**************************************************
The DT messaging system could not be started:

check for proper host name in
/etc/src.sh
/etc/hosts
/usr/adm/inetd.sec

**************************************************

I logged in failsafe mode and found that src.sh and inetd.sec are blank,
while /etc/hosts shows the given host name.

Is it possible that I have somehow disabled console login for root and
users? But even with great enthusiasm, I was not able to find out the
step where I could have done that. In this respect, a little help in
resolving this problem will boost my confidence?

Thanks in advance,

Pal.

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