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Top Forums Programming Open Source Vendor root access Post 302975273 by Don Cragun on Friday 10th of June 2016 01:55:32 AM
Old 06-10-2016
If you as a system administrator grant anyone root access to your network (remotely or on-site) and they screw up, you are betting your future and the financial security (including all private data and IP on every system accessible on your network) and the reputation of the company you work for on the trustworthiness of that person.

Can you isolate the systems this person will be accessing AND verify 100% that they have a not installed any back doors or data leaks on the systems they have touched before you reconnect those systems to the rest of your network?

How much do you trust this vendor and all of that vendor's employees and contractors?
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rcinet

rcinet(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 rcinet(8)

NAME

       rcinet - Restarts, starts, or stops Internet network services on the system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/rcinet option

OPTIONS

       You  must specify one of the following options with the rcinet command: Restarts the network on the system.  Starts the network on the sys-
       tem.  Stops the network on the system.

       You can restrict the restart, start, or stop operation to either IPv4 or IPv6 networks by specifying inet or inet6,  respectively,  as  the
       second parameter.  By default, the script assumes both IPv4 and IPv6.

DESCRIPTION

       The  rcinet  script allows system administrators to restart, start, or stop the Internet network services on the system while it is running
       in multiuser mode by using one of the options.

RESTRICTIONS

       Superuser privilege is required.

       Warn users that the system is being removed from the network.

       File systems that were not mounted using the /etc/fstab file or the automount command must be unmounted with the umount command.  You  must
       remount these file systems using the mount command after the network is started on your system.

ERRORS

       The rcinet script prints an error message to stderr if the network is not configured on the system.

FILES

       The network shell scripts are located in /sbin/init.d with symbolic links in /sbin/rc0.d and /sbin/rc3.d.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: mount(8)

       Network Administration

																	 rcinet(8)
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