Jan Pechanec wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
> >>         Roland, SSH is always running but that's probably not what you 
> >> mean.
> >
> >Is there anything else which runs by default and can be accessed from
> >"localhost" ?
> 
>         sendmail and a couple of others are set to localhost only.

"sendmail" may likely be the perfect canidate if I can invite it to a
small "chat" without having to send any emails.

> Maybe
> rpcbind is on be default which should be enough for UDP. nmap(1) or
> netstat(1m) is probably the easiest way to find out.

The problem is that I don't have a plain Solaris Nevada installation
right now (I'm waiting for SXCE 106 before installing my machine pool
from scratch... ;-/ ) ...

> >I know... but my problem is that I need something which can be tested
> >even if the user has no "root" access (for example students who use
> 
>         nc(1) is good enough for that if you use non-privileged ports. I
> think that would make a better test than using standard services supposedly
> already running since what if they didn't, from whatever reason.

Well, the drawback is that it would require to make SUNWosdem depend on
the SUNWnetcat package...

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Bye,
Roland

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