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Trusted System & telnet port ownership

 
Robert Landstrum
Occasional Advisor

‎08-09-2000 08:35 AM

‎08-09-2000 08:35 AM

Trusted System & telnet port ownership

I set my system up as a trusted system for auditing purposes. But now when you telnet in, you aren't given ownership of your telnet port. It stays the property of root.

Is there a way to change this?
If I thought the answer was easy, I would have called HP.
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John Palmer
Honored Contributor

‎08-09-2000 09:01 AM

‎08-09-2000 09:01 AM

Re: Trusted System & telnet port ownership

As a matter of interest, why do you want to own the device file?

Regards,

John
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CHRIS_ANORUO
Honored Contributor

‎08-09-2000 09:36 AM

‎08-09-2000 09:36 AM

Re: Trusted System & telnet port ownership

Run insf -d driver in /dev directory, check if the telnetd line
is commented in /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment it. Also,
there might be additional security in /var/adm/inetd.sec
restricting ip addresses from using some processes. Check to
see is the /dev/telnet directory has execute permission for all only.
The owner and group should be bin.
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Robert Landstrum
Occasional Advisor

‎08-09-2000 09:49 AM

‎08-09-2000 09:49 AM

Re: Trusted System & telnet port ownership

Thanks to all who have replied so far, I did get an answer from HP. This is known bug since 1998. They have a workaround where you compile a program to give the port to the proper owner after they login.

SR 5003410720 is the number they assigned to this bug. There is no patch planned.
If I thought the answer was easy, I would have called HP.
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