AIX Security

From: Sherman H. (shung_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/29/03

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    I have a few AIX security related questions:

    1. What would be the file contain the list of network services?

    2. Does the permission for /var/adm/utmp and /var/adm/utmpx have to be
    equal 644? Why?

    3. What is a umask? Does the umask value have to be 27? Why?

    4. In AIX, would it provide a better security to access root only through su
    command?

    5. Run awk -F: '{if ($2 == "") print $1}' /etc/passwd
    Can the command be used to see users without a password?

    6. Run awk -F: ' {if ($3 ==0) print $1}' /etc/passwd Can the command be
    used to see whose UID is zero?

    7. find .-type f -perm -o+w -print
    Can the command be used to see permissions for a file or directory?

    Would above items be considered good security related questions in AIX?

    8. How similar of the commands between Solaris and AIX?

    Thanks.

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