Sponsored Content
Operating Systems AIX Securing AIX - Hardening Lesson 101 Post 302772339 by MichaelFelt on Monday 25th of February 2013 06:25:56 AM
Old 02-25-2013
IBM Securing AIX - Hardening Lesson 101

Every now and then I google: SecuringAIX (I write a blog by that name, so I am curious where it stands - and to my dismay I did not make the top5 today from my current location.

However, this unix.com/aix thread did make the top5- and, imho, it is lacking in clarity and ease. So, I thought I would post a refresher - AIX Hardening 101.

Since AIX 5.3, ML05 I believe (so we are anno 2005 I believe) - AIX intradiced a tool known as AIX Security Expert, or aixpert. This is meant to be pretty much - push button security - from it's start at least as much more has been added.

For a test drive - let it tell you what it finds wrong (note, wrong means different. If the level you choose thinks 4 is the right number and you have a different number (e.g., 3 or 5) it will say it is failed.).

So, test drive - no configuration changes made to your system with:

Code:
# [[ -e /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml ]] && mv /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml.save
# aixpert -l high|medium|low|default|sox-cobit -n -o /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml
# aixpert -c
# [[ -e /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml.save ]] && mv  /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml.save  /etc/security/aixpert/core/appliedaixpert.xml
# more /etc/security/aixpert/check_report.txt

Note: you must choose a level to test against - one of high|medium|low|default|sox-cobit

This is part of bos.security.rte so it is always installed. Up to you to use it!
 

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Solaris

Hardening Solaris

What do we need to do to harden a freshly installed solaris OS? like disable telnet, no ftp for root etc...What all services you need to stop? How to check what ports are open? etc etc....please provide all tips that come to your mind...thanks:) (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rcmrulzz
5 Replies

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Lesson Learned: Dual boot XP and Fedora 9

This post captures my recent experience in getting my Dell XPS Gen 3 to support dual boot of Windows XP (Professional) and the Fedora 9 Linux distribution. I searched quite a bit on the internet and found, of course, a variety of opinions regarding how to setup this type (dual boot) of... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rlandon@usa.net
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Rename multiple files lesson

Hi All, So I found a cool way to change extensions to multiple files with: for i in *.doc do mv $i ${i%.doc}.txt done However, what I want to do is move *.txt to *_0hr.txt but the following doesn't work: for i in *.txt do mv $i ${i%.txt}_0hr.txt done My questions are (1) Why... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ScKaSx
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Textfile lesson

Tag allerseits Ich habe ein umfangreiches Script. Darin möchte ich zu Beginn ein textfile lesen. Den ersten Satz. Dann kommen mehrere Instruktionen und dann soll wieder gelesen werden. Den zweiten Satz. Etc. Ich kann also das herkömmliche while read xyz / do ... done nicht benützen. ... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: lazybaer
0 Replies

5. Cybersecurity

securing AIX box

Guys, i want to securing AIX after install by scrath. Is anybody can inform about the standard port which used by AIX? (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: michlix
0 Replies

6. AIX

Securing AIX

Guys, i want to securing AIX after install by scratch. Is anybody can inform about the standard port which used by AIX? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: michlix
4 Replies

7. AIX

AIX 101 : Sys Admin Pocket Survival Guide

HOW-TO AIX Admin 101 Sys Admin Pocket Survival Guide - AIX Worth checking it out and printing it. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: filosophizer
1 Replies

8. Web Development

Oracle Jet - LP: 10. Lesson 1: Oracle JET 4.x - Lesson 1 - Part 4: Data Binding

Working on LP: 10. Lesson 1: Oracle JET 4.x - Lesson 1 - Part 4: Data Binding in this Oracle JET online course - Soar higher with Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET), I have created this code for incidents.js I cannot get the load average data in this Oracle JET test to update the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neo
4 Replies
BLAZE-MAKE(1)						    BlazeBlogger Documentation						     BLAZE-MAKE(1)

NAME
blaze-make - generates a blog from the BlazeBlogger repository SYNOPSIS
blaze-make [-cpqrIFPTV] [-b directory] [-d directory] blaze-make -h|-v DESCRIPTION
blaze-make reads the BlazeBlogger repository, and generates a complete directory tree of static pages, including blog posts, single pages, monthly and yearly archives, tags, and even an RSS feed. OPTIONS
-b directory, --blogdir directory Allows you to specify a directory in which the BlazeBlogger repository is placed. The default option is a current working directory. -d directory, --destdir directory Allows you to specify a directory in which the generated blog is to be placed. The default option is a current working directory. -c, --no-css Disables creating a style sheet. -I, --no-index Disables creating the index page. -p, --no-posts Disables creating blog posts. -P, --no-pages Disables creating pages. -T, --no-tags Disables creating tags. -r, --no-rss Disables creating the RSS feed. -F, --full-paths Enables including page names in generated links. -q, --quiet Disables displaying of unnecessary messages. -V, --verbose Enables displaying of all messages, including a list of created files. -h, --help Displays usage information and exits. -v, --version Displays version information and exits. FILES
.blaze/theme/ A directory containing blog themes. .blaze/style/ A directory containing style sheets. .blaze/lang/ A directory containing language files. EXAMPLE USAGE
Generate a blog in a current working directory: ~]$ blaze-make Done. Generate a blog in the "~/public_html/" directory: ~]$ blaze-make -d ~/public_html Done. Generate a blog with full paths enabled: ~]$ blaze-make -F Done. SEE ALSO
blaze-init(1), blaze-config(1), blaze-add(1) BUGS
To report a bug or to send a patch, please, add a new issue to the bug tracker at <http://code.google.com/p/blazeblogger/issues/>, or visit the discussion group at <http://groups.google.com/group/blazeblogger/>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Jaromir Hradilek This program is free software; see the source for copying conditions. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Version 1.2.0 2012-03-05 BLAZE-MAKE(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:37 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy