Hello!


I am trying to write a script that will apply security changes
to a Solaris system. Things like MAXAGE PASSLENGTH in
/etc/default/passwd etc.
I need to comment out various services in /etc/inetd.conf. Does anyone
know if there is a command that will turn off a service in inetd.conf?
On AIX there is a command that will do it - /usr/sbin/chsubserver -d
-v echo -p tcp -r inetd for example. If not, does anyone know of a
good way of doing it via a script? sed/awk??

Cheers.

In article <f8c5076e.0307100255.3fec5ba7@posting.google.com >,
Birdman <wybird@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to write a script that will apply security changes
>to a Solaris system. Things like MAXAGE PASSLENGTH in
>/etc/default/passwd etc.
>I need to comment out various services in /etc/inetd.conf. Does anyone
>know if there is a command that will turn off a service in inetd.conf?
>On AIX there is a command that will do it - /usr/sbin/chsubserver -d
>-v echo -p tcp -r inetd for example. If not, does anyone know of a
>good way of doing it via a script? sed/awk??

Use sed or ed in a script, and have it put '#' at the beginning of the
lines that you want to disable. Then send a SIGHUP signal to the inetd
process to make it reread it.

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wybird@yahoo.com (Birdman) writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
| I am trying to write a script that will apply security changes
|to a Solaris system. Things like MAXAGE PASSLENGTH in
|/etc/default/passwd etc.

Have you looked at http://wwws.sun.com/software/security/jass to make
sure you're not reinventing that particular wheel?

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