11-01-2005
Thanks for the link to SF ... I'm aware that it is now common practice to turn off "unused" or "unnecessary" services in inetd for security purposes ... what I'm not aware of is any actual usefulness to this practice.
[SOAPBOX]As I like to tell anybody who listens, there is a difference between 'risk' and 'threat' and any so-called security professional that can't explain that difference in plain english is incompetent. I still don't know what the Authentication Management Infrastructure on Solaris actually does, so I'm in absolutely no position to weigh in on its potential risk in the environment. But nobody in our sysadmin dept. has been able to explain it to me either ... so why would a supposedly professional sysadmin turn stuff off if they don't know what it does? If this behavior is the result of a "security audit", why wouldn't the sysadmins require an explanation from the auditor before blindly flipping bits in the system configs?
Serously tho ... I'm no fan of IT security folk ... in the corporate world in which I live, breathe and work, they tend to be obstrunctionist and counter-productive ... they refuse to validate their actual utility to the company while doing much of their work in secret (they can't tell me 'why' they do anything because of security, get it?), meanwhile my productivity goes down because of the worthless hurdles they throw in my path. Cost to the company goes up, my ROI goes down. And I think that it is safe to say that the company is not any better off by the disablement of AMI on this server.[\SOAPBOX]
Back to the main thrust of my OP ... could somebody indicate WHERE can I find explanations of these services & packages? All I know is that overnight a dozen or so services in inetd.conf were commented out and the next day one of my tools was broken. I would really prefer to find out which service is the needed one without having to go through the brute-force 'turn them on one at a time' method of experimentation.
tia
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sprayd(1M) sprayd(1M)
NAME
rpc.sprayd, sprayd - spray server
SYNOPSIS
log_file]
DESCRIPTION
is an RPC server that records the packets sent by from another system (see spray(1M)).
daemon may be started by or through the command line. The service provided by is not useful as a networking benchmark as it uses unreli-
able connectionless transports, UDP, for example. It can report a large number of packets dropped when the drops were caused by the pro-
gram sending packets faster than they can be buffered locally, that is, before the packets get to the network medium.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Log any errors to the named log file,
log_file. Errors are not logged if the option is not specified.
Information logged to the file includes date and time of the error, host name, process id and name of the function gen-
erating the error, and the error message. Note that different services can share a single log file since enough infor-
mation is included to uniquely identify each error.
Exit after serving each RPC request.
Using the option, the security file can control access to RPC services.
Exit only if
o dies (see rpcbind(1M)),
o Another registers with or
o becomes unregistered with
The option is more efficient because a new process is not launched for each RPC request. is the default.
AUTHOR
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), rpcbind(1M), spray(1M), inetd.conf(4), inetd.sec(4), services(4).
sprayd(1M)