Re: Another AIX Security Question

From: Chris Mattern (syscjm_at_gwu.edu)
Date: 09/20/03

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    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.
    >
    > 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?
    >
    > Please advise.
    >
    >
    If you had tried "man utmp" you would've found out that it lives in /etc on
    AIX. utmpx was Solaris's updated replacement for utmp; it doesn't exist on
    AIX.

                              Chris Mattern

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