topic How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31 in Operating System - HP-UX

How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

Mr.Right — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:08:08 GMT

HI All

All of our systems are trusted. Any time I telnet and log in as a non-root user, I see that information displayed. It comes up immediately after the password.

login: wallekp
Password:
Last successful login for wallekp: Mon Aug 30 09:57:35 CST6CDT 2004 on pts/ta
Last unsuccessful login for wallekp: Mon Aug 30 09:57:29 CST6CDT 2004 on pts/ta

Is there any way I can stop displaying this information on user login.

Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

rariasn — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:57:05 GMT

Hi,

Modify /etc/syslog.conf to add next entry:

auth.info /var/adm/syslog/auth.log

Modify entry:

*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

to:

mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Restart "syslogd" daemon:

# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

More information:

# man syslogd
# man 3c syslog

rgs,

Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

Jeeshan — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:06:02 GMT

check this doc

~~http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/security.4.html~~

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Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

Rita C Workman — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:54:39 GMT

hmmmm....based on your example I think Patrick Wallek might say:

Follow the advice of 'unix shell' and change the following to:

DISPLAY_LAST_LOGIN=0

Kindest regards,
Rita

...and don't forget Patrick's Etiquette document, and assign points accordingly.

Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

Steven Schweda — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:32:40 GMT

> Is there any way I can stop displaying this
> information on user login.

Why would you want to do that? It seems to
me to be a pretty harmless security aid.

Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

rmueller58 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:25:10 GMT

go to SSH and shut off telnet.

We have disabled telnet,ftp,rlogin on all our Un*x servers.. All network connections should be secured and encrypted.

the reason to disable is that username and passwd is sent in "clear text" and is easily captured using TCPDUMP or Wireshark.
Unless your "network" is firewalled, and all individuals within the network or devices connected to the network would never have malicious intent or you have full absolute control i'd recommend moving from the unsecure connections.

Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

Steven Schweda — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:29:50 GMT

> go to SSH and shut off telnet.

This may be a good idea, but I fail to see
how it would suppress the undesired messages.
Around here, for example:

alp $ ssh dyi
Authentication successful.

Last successful login: Tue Dec 15 21:24:07 CST 2009 alp-l.antinode.info
Last authentication failure: Tue Dec 15 21:24:30 CST 2009 dyi.antinode.info
Last login: Tue Dec 15 21:24:07 2009 from alp-l.antinode.info
[...]
dyi $ uname -a
HP-UX dyi B.11.31 U ia64 4235313755 unlimited-user license

Of course, I still don't see why suppressing
the messages is a good idea, but that _was_
the original request.

Re: How to stop display of Login detail HP-UX 11.31

Bill Hassell — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:53:10 GMT

> DISPLAY_LAST_LOGIN=0

This is added to the /etc/default/security file. However, it does nothing for any version of HP-UX prior to 11.31. Apparently this feature was added for 11i ver3.