Re: Disabling RPC on a Sun U-60

["Alan Morewood" <morewood () on bell ca>]

Replace the user shell with bash or tcsh.  The login process with
the default Solaris shells interacts with RPC (although honestly
I do not know what this interaction involves).

> I was just asked a question, and I didn't know the answer, but I figured
> someone on here must.
>
> Our security admin has had repeated problems with disabling RPC on Sun
> Ultra-60's running Solaris 2.6.  After disabling it, he says telnet and
> some other tcp services start hanging.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why?  The services are all running through inetd
> and without TCP Wrappers (yet).  I don't recall ever seeing that before
> but he says every U-60 he's used has done that.
>
> Nicholas