Sponsored Content
Operating Systems Solaris Not able to disable finger & telnet command in Solaris 8 Post 303040581 by Scrutinizer on Friday 1st of November 2019 04:38:35 AM
Old 11-01-2019
I certainly agree about removing inherently insecure daemons/utilities altogether, preferably through configuration management tooling if there are many servers (I use ansible for Solaris) so that it stays removed.

I was merely responding to a part in post #1 to give the poster more insight into why inetd was not responding to the config file changes...
This User Gave Thanks to Scrutinizer For This Post:
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

finger command

Hello all, Here is what I am trying to do. If a user exist, then send an echo "EXIST" or else "DOES NOT EXIST". (under HP-UX) Kind of: #!/usr/bin/sh USER=mylogin finger $USER if $? = 0 then echo "EXIST"" else echo "DOES NOT EXIST" fi (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: qfwfq
10 Replies

2. Solaris

disable telnet on Solaris

All - would you please some one help me to disable telnet on Solaris? /etc/inetd.conf Thanks :confused: (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: March_2007
11 Replies

3. Solaris

Disable telnet timeout

Hi, Can someone help me how I can disable telnet timeout? I'm connecting remotely to some machines and after some time my telnet connection was closed. How can I disable this so that I'm always connected to those machines? Thanks! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ayhanne
2 Replies

4. Solaris

disable telnet on the startup

Hi All, I want to disable telnet on the startup of solaris 8-10 but still wants for a standby purposes. In case I need to troubleshoot ssh, I can connect thru telnet. Most solution on the internet is to permanently removed it. Best Regards, itik (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: itik
5 Replies

5. Solaris

SSH enable, Telnet disable ...

Hi... How do I enable SSH and disable telnet.. Also - is there anything special I need to do to ensure that a new user can use ssh and su but not telnet? Adel (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: ArabOracle.com
15 Replies

6. Solaris

Disable telnet for a particular user

On Solaris 8 is there anyway to disable telnet for a particular user and not for entire system altogether? I would like the user to retain a shell and so creating a noshell like ftp account is not an option. (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: boshyd
14 Replies

7. AIX

Allow telnet in AIX from specific IP adds, but disable for everyone else

I need to change the security on our AIX servers and disable telnet from all but certain IP addresses. I have hashed the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf and added filter rules for those IP adds to allow access on port 23, but this didn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Alps
2 Replies

8. Solaris

Having problems with finger on Solaris 10

I have a bunch of Solaris systems and for the 8/9 systems, I can type "finger -s 2" to get a list of all users (whether they are logged in or not) and the last time they logged in. I have some new 10 systems and this command does not work. Does anybody know whether this was changed in Solaris 10?... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Muller
6 Replies

9. Solaris

Solaris Finger Service Problem

I have been instructed to disable the finger service for our Solaris 10 box. However when I input #svcadm disable finger I receive: "svcadm: Pattern 'finger' does not match any instances. I have also tried to edit the inetd config file and comment out the finger part but Solaris has basically... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: mvhoward
14 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

What is the use of "finger" command & how to use it to kill the online processes ?

Hi there, I am eager to know what exactly is the use of "finger" command & how to use it to kill the online processes ? :b: (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: abhijitpaul0212
1 Replies
News::Scan::Poster(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   News::Scan::Poster(3pm)

NAME
News::Scan::Poster - keep track of posters to a newsgroup SYNOPSIS
use News::Scan::Poster; my $poster = News::Scan::Poster->new($news_scan_article_obj); DESCRIPTION
This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep track of cumulative statistics for posters to a Usenet newsgroup such as header volume or signature lines. CONSTRUCTOR
new ( ARTICLE ) "ARTICLE" should be a "News::Scan::Article" object or inherit from the "News::Scan::Article" class. "new" performs some initialization and returns a "News::Scan::Poster" object. METHODS
address ( [ ADDRESS ] ) Returns the address of this poster represented as a "Mail::Internet" object. If present, "ADDRESS" tells the object that the "Mail::Internet" object in "ADDRESS" is its address. idea. attrib ( [ ATTRIBUTION ] ) Returns some nice attribution for this poster. If present, "ATTRIBUTION" tells the object how it shall identify itself when asked. message_ids ( [ MESSAGE-ID ] ) Returns a list of Message-IDs attributed to this poster. If present, "MESSAGE-ID" is added to this list of this poster's articles. volume Returns the volume in bytes of the traffic generated by this poster. articles Returns the number of articles attributed to this poster. posted_to Returns a hash whose keys are newsgroup names and whose values are the number of times this poster has crossposted to the group of interest and the corresponding newsgroup. crossposts Returns the total number of crossposts this poster has sent through the group of interest. header_volume Returns the volume in bytes generated by this poster's headers. header_lines Returns the number of header lines generated by this poster. body_volume Returns the volume in bytes generated by this poster's message bodies. body_lines Returns the number of body lines generated by this poster. orig_volume Returns the volume in bytes of original content generated by this poster. orig_lines Returns the number of original lines generated by this poster. sig_volume Returns the volume in bytes generated by this poster's signatures. sig_lines Returns the number of signature lines generated by this poster. SEE ALSO
News::Scan, Mail::Address, News::Scan::Article AUTHOR
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2000-04-13 News::Scan::Poster(3pm)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:18 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy