Securing Solaris 10

[James Craig]

        I have been playing with Solaris 10 on a few of my machines before
        letting it loose in the wild (ie, the labs).

        I am looking for any best-practice guides for services run by
        smf that can be turned off, and if there is a way that I can
        create a profile that I could propogate to 150+ machines or
        through jumpstart ..

        .. any insight is appreciated.

jim craig

[Steven Jones-5]

Cis-security.org

Regards

Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: James Craig [mailto:jmc@...]
Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 2:06 a.m.
To: focus-sun@...
Subject: Securing Solaris 10



        I have been playing with Solaris 10 on a few of my machines
before
        letting it loose in the wild (ie, the labs).

        I am looking for any best-practice guides for services run by
        smf that can be turned off, and if there is a way that I can
        create a profile that I could propogate to 150+ machines or
        through jumpstart ..

        .. any insight is appreciated.

jim craig

[Alex Noordergraaf]

James Craig wrote:

>
> I have been playing with Solaris 10 on a few of my machines before
> letting it loose in the wild (ie, the labs).
>
> I am looking for any best-practice guides for services run by
> smf that can be turned off, and if there is a way that I can
> create a profile that I could propogate to 150+ machines or
> through jumpstart ..
>
> .. any insight is appreciated.

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Well, if you are looking for something that can propogate security
profiles through JumpStart seems like you should take a look at JASS
(aka Solaris Security Toolkit) v4.2. Support for Solaris 10 is included
in this release which was just released this past Thursday (7/29). You
can integrate it into you JumpStart environment quite easily and push
your custom-developed security profiles (aka drivers) that way.

URL is http://sun.com/security/jass

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HTH, Alex

>
> jim craig
>

[K Kadow]

On 8/4/05, James Craig <jmc@...> wrote:

>
>
>        I have been playing with Solaris 10 on a few of my machines before
>        letting it loose in the wild (ie, the labs).
>
>        I am looking for any best-practice guides for services run by
>        smf that can be turned off, and if there is a way that I can
>        create a profile that I could propogate to 150+ machines or
>        through jumpstart ..
>
>        .. any insight is appreciated.

If not for the "no filtering possible on loopback" limitation in Solaris, I'd
recommend a generic filter policy using the version of Darren Reed's
IP Filter which ships with Solaris 10.  With this limitation, packet filters
do not provide protection against local attacks.

Are you already using generic_limited_net.xml?
Do you have a site profile? (/var/svc/profile/site.xml)

According to smf-discuss (opensolaris list), the next version of JASS
will have SMF support.


Kevin Kadow

[Sebastian Jaenicke]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:05:38AM -0400, James Craig wrote:
[..]
> I am looking for any best-practice guides for services run by
> smf that can be turned off, and if there is a way that I can
> create a profile that I could propogate to 150+ machines or
> through jumpstart ..

Just create a custom site.xml file and use a postinstall
script to copy it into /a/var/svc/profile.

- Sebastian
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