[ibm-aix-ibmi-hosting] Recurring security scans - and actions to be taken.
Daniel Black
daniel at mariadb.org
Wed Aug 25 03:44:26 UTC 2021
Opps, me looks up
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 6:44 AM Michael Felt <aixtools at felt.demon.nl> wrote:
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> If you don't need any of the inetd services - also stop the inetd process.
>
> # /usr/sbin/chrctcp -S -d inetd
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 1:43 PM Daniel Black <daniel at mariadb.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:09 AM Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Thanks for resolving the issues as reported last week. It looks like all of the ntp problems have been resolved! I've attached the report from yesterday so everyone can see.
> >
> > However we do have a few issues left that need to be fixed. It appears that rexecd is running again on p8-aix1-mariadb.osuosl.org. We need to make sure that service is either disabled always or at least blocked off.
>
> Thanks Lance,
>
> Seems corrected - (thanks Michael?)
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> root at p8-aix1-mariadb:[/root]egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/inetd.conf
> daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
> time stream tcp nowait root internal
> daytime dgram udp wait root internal
> time dgram udp wait root internal
> xmquery dgram udp6 wait root /usr/bin/xmtopas xmtopas -p3
> caa_cfg stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/clusterconf
> clusterconf >>/var/adm/ras/clusterconf.log 2>&1
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> root at p8-aix1-mariadb:[/root]grep exec /etc/inetd.conf
> ## needs to be executed for inetd to re-read the inetd.conf file.
> #exec stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/rexecd rexecd
>
> Is disabling inetd possible/recommended?
>
> Is commenting all /etc/inetd.conf service the right way?
>
> Is disabling /etc/rc.tcpip to disable inetd and others sane?
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=files-rctcpip-file-tcpip
>
> > I'll check back on this next week to see any progress.
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