uucp & auditors

[Lisa Sorbo]

I have an external auditor asking questions about uucp - "is UUCP installed and/or used?"
I know we don't use it - how do I check to see if it is installed?

Lisa
HP-UX 11.0 64 bit

[Elena Leontieva · Accepted solution]

Lisa,

Do: swlist -l product |grep UUCP
UUCP B.11.00 Unix to Unix CoPy

[A. Clay Stephenson]

UUcp is almost certainly installed - you can verify using the swlist command as indicated BUT it it so archaic that it is almost certainly not configured.

1) cd /etc/uucp
2) vi Devices - if not devices are defined then you aren't configured
3) Final Check: grep -i "uugetty" < /etc/inittab ; if nothing is found or if set to "off"; you are not configured

Uucp was used primarily before the days of networks to copy data between machines over either directly connected serial lines or via modems. It actually worked amazingly well.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

UUcp is almost certainly installed - you can verify using the swlist command as indicated BUT it it so archaic that it is almost certainly not configured.

1) cd /etc/uucp
2) vi Devices - if not devices are defined then you aren't configured
3) Final Check: grep -i "uugetty" < /etc/inittab ; if nothing is found or if set to "off"; you are not configured

Uucp was used primarily before the days of networks to copy data between machines over either directly connected serial lines or via modems. It actually worked amazingly well.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

UUcp is almost certainly installed - you can verify using the swlist command as indicated BUT it it so archaic that it is almost certainly not configured.

1) cd /etc/uucp
2) vi Devices - if not devices are defined then you aren't configured
3) Final Check: grep -i "uugetty" < /etc/inittab ; if nothing is found or if set to "off"; you are not configured

Uucp was used primarily before the days of networks to copy data between machines over either directly connected serial lines or via modems. It actually worked amazingly well.

[Bill Douglass]

If required, you can remove the UUCP fielset with swremove


swremove SystemComm.SYSCOM
swremove HPUXBase64.UUCP

(SYSCOM is a dependency of UUCP).

This will, unfortunately, remove kermit from your system.

[Lisa Sorbo]

thanks all - I'll go with "installed but not configured and not used" for now and see what comes back.