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Bug ID 4917108
Synopsis /var/adm/loginlog, /var/adm/sulog should exist by default
State 4-Defer:No Resource Available (Accepted, but the fix may not be made soon.)
Category:Subcategory utility:security
Keywords SOOTB | gse-sec-team | sbd | sol-sec-guide
Reported Against 5.10
Duplicate Of
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Submit Date 4-September-2003
Last Update Date 18-March-2009
Description
The /var/adm/loginlog should exist by default.  Per the manual page:

   > After five unsuccessful login attempts, all the attempts are
   > logged in the file /var/adm/loginlog. This file contains one
   > record for each failed attempt.  Each  record  contains  the
   > login name, tty specification, and time.

From a security perspective, it would be very useful if this
file were created by default.  Is there any reason why this
is not already the case?  It should not be incumbant on the 
administrator to have to create this file - which most often
would be done after the admin needed it in the first place.

Further, this could help eliminate some of the post-installation
work that is typically done to improve the security of the
system by tools such as the Solaris Security Toolkit as well as
third-party and customer developed tools.  This is an area where
we should be able to make Solaris more secure out of the box 
without much impact on the system or its resources.


 xxxxx@xxxxx.com 2003-09-03
 xxxxx@xxxxx.com 2003-10-08
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