On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 20:44 +0000, Stewart, Larry C Sr CTR DISA JITC (US) wrote: >> I have several Solaris 10 servers that I can't run rkhunter on despite >> the fact that I am logged in as root or have su'd to root from my >> account. The OS is Solaris 10 8/11 on an x86 platform. I have hardened >> the system using US DoD guidelines. I have one system that I can run >> it on that has not received the same level of attention. In order for >> me to find and change the setting that will allow me to run rkhunter I >> was hoping you could explain what rkhunter is doing to determine that >> the user is root. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can >> provide. >> >Hello, > >By default it uses the 'id' command (wherever that is in your PATH), but >for Solaris it will use '/usr/xpg4/bin/id' if it is executable. It then >runs 'id -u' to get the userid and compares that to '0' or 'root'. If >neither is true, then the program stops saying that you must be root to >run RKH. > > > >John.
Thanks it turned out that my systems did not have that package installed. I installed the SUNWxcu4 package and it runs fine. Thanks again Larry Stewart, CISSP, CCNA Contractor - ManTech TSG Joint Interoperability Test Command Office: 520-538-4227 Cell phone: 520-227-8251
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