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Questions on talkd problem for Athena 8.4.26 systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Wed Jun 5 12:03:25 2002
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:03:21 -0400
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
I just got two security notices regarding some Athena 8.4.26 Solaris
systems. The instructions:
http://diswww.mit.edu/menelaus/release-announce/133
mention doing a "chmod 000 /usr/sbin/in.talkd", (which I have done on both
systems), and also mention commenting out the ntalkd line in
/etc/athena/inetd.conf.
However, as far as I can tell, there is no ntalkd line in that file. In
fact, "grep -il talk /etc/athena/*" produces absolutely nothing.
My question is ultimately whether I have secured these systems simply by
nulling the permissions on the vendor supplied in.talkd, or if there is any
further step (or steps) that I should take.
Thanks,
--Tmo
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