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Old 02-08-2005, 03:41 PM   #1
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Securing uname command?


Is it a good idea to "secure" the uname command? I'd prefer not to give out my OS, hostname, kernel version, architecture, etc...

Can I secure it by simply running the following command?
mv /bin/uname /sbin/uname

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Old 02-08-2005, 03:46 PM   #2
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You can't secure a file by doing that justb ecause it's not in there search path doesn't mean they can't type out the whole path to execute it. You can "chmod 750 /bin/uname" but it seems that most everything wants to execute uname so you might break some apps that rely on this.
 
Old 02-08-2005, 03:47 PM   #3
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Give it out to who? Is that a kiosk system or something?
How many people, other than yourself, have shell access?


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Old 02-08-2005, 05:16 PM   #4
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Your right, it is probably not a good idea since other apps rely on this. My host runs Apache, MySQL and SSH services... I thought it may help to prevent someone from gaining (advertised) knowledge of the kernel version and using specific vulnerabilities.

Although the uname command should only be visible within a shell, there are leaks from various web services (phpinfo(), phpmyadmin, mambo, etc).

No worries - it seems like this is security through obscurity anyways. I'll stick to iptables.
 
  


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