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- From: abcc@DIALix.oz.au (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants)
- Subject: SUMMARY: SunSHIELD - experiences sought
- Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 08:06:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov09.080600.24816@DIALix.oz.au>
- Summary: It has some problems!
- Keywords: SunSHIELD ARM ASET security
- Lines: 45
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- I had three replies to my query about SunSHIELD - two reporting problems,
- and one (from a Sun SSE) who said he had "no real problems".
-
- Some of the problems that were reported are:
-
- - It installs off the CD-ROM without execute permission on the binaries
- (have you ever tried to boot a Sun that can't execute init?)
-
- - When installed with C2 auditing turned on, C2 ignores all of the auditing
- flags and audits everything...
-
- - If you have /etc/resolv.conf (DNS) and ARM authenticates your hosts via
- lookup to the nameservers, then *all* of the nameservers in resolv.conf are
- checked. If one of them is down, ARM will NOT authenticate you, and you will
- NOT be able to login. Sun's solution: never let your nameservers go down. Never.
-
- - Invalid login attempts are logged in cleartext. ARM does not tell you when
- you run out of invalid login attempts.
-
- - If the armd_transact file gets over around 100K in size, armd goes berserk,
- chewing up wads of CPU time and not authenticating. Sun's solution: move the
- transaction file and send a SIGHUP to rpc.armd.
-
- You also need to install 2 patches to use it - 100632 and 100653. These
- patches may fix some or all of the above problems.
-
- I had replies to my post from the following:
-
- Lynton Willson <lwillson@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- (from whose reply most of this posting is shamelessly plagiarised)
- John Pipkins <jp@poseur.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Jerry M. Carlin <jmcarli@srv.pacbell.com>
-
- Thanks all. I have kept these replies; email me if you would like a copy.
-
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