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Web Dispatcher on SLES -> which users and services/ports are required?

former_member184588
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Hello,

I did a straight forward installation of the Web Dispatcher like described in the documentation. This worked really good.

My question is now how to secure the web dispatcher. The specific question is which users/services/ports are required and which of the following users can I deactivate?

I am not sure with the following users: I think that ntp sshd and wwwrun is required. But I am not sure and maybe you could give me some hints.

bin, daemon, ftp, games, haldaemon, lp, mail, man, messagebus, news, nobody, ntp, polkituser, postfix, sshd, suse-ncc, uucp, uuidd, wwwrun

I am also not sure regarding the services/ports. Which ports have to be opened except (22, our port for the admin web access and the https port to route the traffic).

What do I need to take care changing the passwords?

I already found some notes like: 540379, 870127 and  538405 but unfortunately this is not concrete enough for me.


Thanks a lot,

   Vanessa

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Your question which users (and maybe services) can be disabled should be targeted to a Unix forum, in your case SUSE Linux. My opinion is that as long as your network infrastructure is properly desigend (and secure), you can leave the default installation as it is.

Regarding what networking ports are required, see the attaced links. The non SAP specific ports you should also discuss in a Unix forum. I myself would only enable HTTP(S), DNS and SSH.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/48/99ac3a7f020e27e10000000a421937/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/4e/c26cdc58e968b9e10000000a42189e/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/a2/f9d7fed2adc340ab462ae159d19509/frameset.htm

former_member184588
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Hello Tobias, hello Samuli,

thanks a lot for your answers. I will give it a try.

Greetings, Vanessa

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Hello Vanessa,

I don't think you will find much information provided by SAP regarding this topic. This is because these questions are not specific to SAP. They are rather OS specific. Maybe this could be a starting point: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7001786

Best regards,

Tobias