From: Ignacio J. Vidal (ijvidal@sinectis.com.ar)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 18:09:30 EDT
Kevin:
Thanks for the info about the redbook.
I'll check it for imnadm.
Talking about invscout: this is the user for a daemon related to "inventory
scouting".
This service checks in the web if there are new hardware microcode updates
for the system it runs on, I found some info at IBM's web site.
People working on security had asked about those users, this is why I've
asked (usually they don't use AIX every day... and I havent ever questioned
the existence of this users).
Well, thanks again
Ignacio
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]En nombre de
> Adams Kevin J
> Enviado el: Miércoles, 10 de Julio de 2002 19:19
> Para: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Asunto: Re: AIX users
>
>
> Ignacio,
>
> The redbook sg245971, Additional Security Tools for AIX
> Systems, touches on
> this briefly.
>
> imnadm owns imnss, imqss and httpdlite that are used with
> docsearch to view
> man pages over the web.
>
> I have disabled these services and disabled the imnadm
> userid, but did not
> delete it.
>
> You could probably uninstall the above related packages and
> remove the id,
> otherwise you will have orphaned files.
>
> Can't speak on invscout.
>
> Kevin Adams
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ignacio Vidal [mailto:ividal@BIYCSA.COM.AR]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:41 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: [aix-l] AIX users
>
>
> Hello:
> I need to get some information about two O.S. users (invscout and
> imnadm) and the subsystems they "run" (microcode discovery
> service/inventory scout and file indexing).
> Can anyone supply a link (or just a few words) about these?
>
> The point is: can I remove this users?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Ignacio
>
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