I did not change the configuration of anything related to the PlcmSpIp user. It does however make me feel better that it is related to the vsftpd service and the polycom phones.
>From /etc/passwd: PlcmSpIp:x:500:500::/var/sipxdata/configserver/phone/profile/tftproot:/sbin/nologin So, that user cannot ssh to a shell. So I don't think it was that. ~Noah On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Tony Graziano <[email protected]> wrote: > ... more -- its a user that does not have login to the OS itself, just > vsftpd, which is restricted to certain commands and must present a > request for its mac address in order to get a configuration file. It > is not logging into linux unless someone changed the rights of the > user. > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:30 AM, George Niculae <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Tony Graziano >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> this is not a valid system user unless you have manually added it to the >>> system. I do think the logs would show more if access was granted. Why are >>> you exposing sshd to the outside world with an acl or by protecting it at >>> your firewall? >>> >> >> PlcmSpIp is the user used by polycom phones for fetching config from server >> >> George >> _______________________________________________ >> sipx-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Tony Graziano, Manager > Telephone: 434.984.8430 > sip: [email protected] > Fax: 434.465.6833 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Linked-In Profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-graziano/14/4a6/7a4 > Ask about our Internet Fax services! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Using or developing for sipXecs from SIPFoundry? Ask me about sipX-CoLab 2013! > > -- > LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: > Telephone: 434.984.8426 > sip: [email protected] > > Helpdesk Customers: http://myhelp.myitdepartment.net > Blog: http://blog.myitdepartment.net > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ Scanned for viruses and content by the Tranet Spam Sentinel service. _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/
