It would be of interest for me, why this should be shut down? It shouldn't listen for connections. So what security concerns are there?
sent from my mobile device -------- Originale Nachricht -------- Von: William Hongach <william.hong...@marist.edu> Gesendet: Thu Jun 13 20:15:47 GMT+02:00 2019 An: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com> Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server? Hello, It is the service (or related timer) that runs rhn_check based on the interval specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd. This is how Spacewalk clients check in with the server for queued tasks. There should be a man page available for rhnsd. If you shut it down, the client will not check in with the server, unless rhn_check is run manually or via a scheduled task like cron. However, if you run osad (I do not) then I do not believe you need it since that is a different model. But your security team may also flag osad like they flagged rhnsd. From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> On Behalf Of Paul Greene Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:56 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server? What is the actual function of rhnsd? What is actually being lost if its not running? On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:02 PM William Hongach <william.hong...@marist.edu<mailto:william.hong...@marist.edu>> wrote: Hello, I suppose you could run rhn_check out of cron if you did not want rhnsd to schedule it. From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com>> On Behalf Of Paul Greene Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:31 PM To: Spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server? Our security group is telling me, based on a Nessus scan, that I need to disable the rhnsd service. Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server? _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
