Re: Another AIX Security Question
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Date: 09/18/03
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Date: 18 Sep 2003 19:19:54 GMT
In article <70jab.8174$BS5.1195@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Sherman H. wrote:
>When I did a security review on Solaris two years ago, one of the items I
>checked was to verify permission for both files /var/adm/utmp and
>/var/adm/utmpx are equal to 644.
"wall" may write stuff to values that are supposed to be terminals
found in these files. Making these world-writable could lead to
modified config files. (I've long thought that a ~/.rhosts file should
not be counted if any line in it is of invalid format.)
>I now forgot what was reason behind it. Also, it seems like I cannot find
>these two files in the AIX environment. Does AIX has a different file name
>for the logging files?
Does AIX have the same name for anything ?
I think I remember utmp,wtmp being in /etc/ with SunOS.
There might be clues here - or ask for your money back from google.
http://dbforums.com/arch/127/2002/8/482109
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