12-02-2015
Allowing External Scans
Hello!
I run an HP Unix system which I host oracle databases on, as well as oracle based apps used by my company. My IA department needs to scan my files to ensure I am following IA procedures and check for vulnerabilities in scripts etc. The scan is coming from corporate, and they asked for root access initially to scan the entire file system with. I denied the request and instead offered an account in the root group, but not with the permissions. I do not have the ability to change files or mkdir or even touch a file with the account, but am not sure I did it right. I am not an expert in the area, and am looking for a better way to accomplish this, or perhaps enhance what I have done. They will want to run the scan once a week, so having the account disable on a time schedule would be great too.
Any thoughts? Anyone done this before? Thanks!!!
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
setuidgid
setuidgid(8) System Manager's Manual setuidgid(8)
NAME
setuidgid - runs another program under a specified account's uid and gid.
SYNOPSIS
setuidgid account child
DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments.
setuidgid sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups. It then runs child.
setuidgid cannot be run by anyone other than root.
EXIT CODES
setuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setgid, if it cannot setuid, or if it cannot run child.
Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.
SEE ALSO
supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8),
tai64nlocal(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8)
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setuidgid(8)