Re: Problem with SATAN/VMS

Andreas Siegert (afx@ibm.de)
Fri, 7 Apr 1995 23:50:55 +0200 (CEST)

SATAN on AIX has a similar problem.
AIX emits a permission denied that the simple test (test -s) doesn't catch

> The bourne shell script 'rsh.satan' falsely reports a vulnerability on 
> hosts that are running DEC VMS 6.1  This is because the OS sends the 
> following message to standard output:
> 
> 	UCX$RSHD - Permission denied - host IP addr
> 
> To fix, just add a test for the above string to the 'if $TEST -s 
> "$tmp_file"' test in 'rsh.satan'.



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