AIX security

dan df at cs.purdue.EDU
Thu Sep 28 05:07:06 AEST 1989


  Dear AIX'ers:

   I have recently finished a beta-release of a UNIX security system.
Written in Bourne shell, generic shell commands (awk, sed, etc.) and
a small amount of C, the system checks for a wide variety of
problems that can occur on almost any UNIX system on a fairly
regular basis, usually through carelessness, malice, or ignorance.
  I hope to post the system soon(?), but I would like to get someone
who is running aix to give it a try.  Sorry, I will only mail it
out to the first 5 or so people who respond.  And only, I repeat only,
if you will quickly mail to me a response -- say within a week or two
at most -- to how it worked on your system, and only if you will
not distribute it further without my permission.  If you don't want to
abide by my conditions, you'll just have to wait for the posting; I
want to post the package as soon as possible, and I want to make
sure it runs on as many wild systems (such as AIX :-) as possible...
  I'm not asking for a blow by blow description of what it might
discover, but I do need fast input on any problems that it might
have running.  I have about a hundred other beta testers, none of
which have admitted to using AIX.  So if you want to further truth,
justice, the american way, and the destruction of ignorance
about security, mail fast to:

dan farmer
df at medusa.cs.purdue.edu

(oh yeah, if you would include the type of machine you use, I'd like
to know that, too...)

thanks, (sorry to those above #5)

-- 

dan
df at medusa.cs.purdue.edu



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