IRIX Security HOWTO

In an effort to solve the many security FAQs which pop up, I’ve written a security HOWTO for IRIX. It contains step by step instructions on how to secure your 6.5 system.

The current version is 0.1, and it can be viewed here: irix_security_howto_0.1.pdf

Please send any questions or feedback.

SGI

SGI provides security patches, as well as recommended/required patch sets, for free.
For some of the patches, you’ll need a Supportfolio username and password to download them – you can apply for one here.

• Security patches can be found at http://www.sgi.com/support/security/index.html

• Recommended/Required patch sets are available at http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/patchset/index.html
  You will require a Supportfolio login. This patch list should be updated monthly.

• If you have an SGI support contract, you can find the Support Contract Required Patches at http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/patchset/index.html
  You will require a Supportfolio login. Patch list updated daily.

• SGI also provides the Wiretap mailing list, for notification of security bugs and their patches.
  To subscribe, send an email to wiretap-request@sgi.com with a message body of:
  subscribe wiretap <your_email_address>
  end

• CERT – the Computer Emergency Response Team co-ordinates reports of vulnerabilities, and has a fairly comprehensive list of vulnerabilities, plus information on vendor-supplied fixes (and where to get them from)

• SANS – the SANS Institute was founded in 1989 as a co-operative research and education organisation. It’s one of the premier computer security organisations – lots of helpful information here.

• SecurityFocus has grown out of the BugTraq mailing list – it contains archives of vulnerabilities, archives of security related mailing lists, exploits, discussions – the works. You should subscribe to the BugTraq mailing list – it’s well worth it.

• If you have one of the newer SGI Visual Workstations, running Windows, then you should also subscribe to the NTBugTraq mailing list

This is a collection of sites that I’ve found too useful to risk losing – hence they’ve been mirrored locally.

Reality is back as http://reality.sgiweb.org. However, not all the old Reality content is live yet. Please give them a donation to keep them going!

If there is extra information you think should be mirrored, or you have content you’d like mirrored, please get in touch.

At the moment, the current information is mirrored here:

• The SGI FAQs
    Their home was http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/index.html . This appears to be dead now.
  
    A copy can still be found at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sgi/

• SGI’s Legacy Products page
    Also known as “SGI’s page of Cool Stuff” – this is where product information for the more common and much loved older kit is.

• Scott Henry’s pages about configuring PPP for IRIX

• Douglas Scott’s SGI Audio Apps pages

• Bill Henderson’s List of FTP sites with IRIX software

• Ken Schwarz’s Tips and Tricks page, as well as his excellent Remote Joystick pages

• Rick Davis’ Digital Video resources

• SGI Quake and Quake2 plus some mods used to be found at http://reality.sgi.com/sgiquake/index.html. A local mirror can be found here.

• Jeff Martin’s Motion Capture pages

• Lots of excellent information about Roboinst was at http://reality.sgi.com/roboinst/index.html. Sadly my mirror has been lost and I can’t find any other archives. This was the definitive resource for network installs of IRIX.
  Please if you have a copy get in touch so it can be mirrored here.

• Tom Kaye’s VRML 2.0 Resources

• Jodeman’s SGI Stuff

• Chris Pirazzi’s Lurker’s Guide to Video

• Alex’s SGI Pages

• SGI’s 1600SW FAQs

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Our collection of links to FAQs and other useful sources of SGI info. If there are some you think we’ve missed, or else you have something you want referenced/mirrored, then please get in touch.

Note: Reality is back! Check out http://reality.sgiweb.org/. Also note that reality.sgi.com also works again. If you’ve ever used Reality, consider using the PayPal link to help keep it going. Go on – what’s $20? Really?

• The SGI FAQs were at http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/index.html

  This site now appears to be dead, so check the local mirrors at http://www.siliconbunny.com/mirrors/www-viz.tamu.edu/sgi-faq/index.html

• Ian Mapleson’s excellent SGI Tech pages – the place to go for SGI information.

  Ian has performance and model information for pretty much anything MIPS-based that SGI have produced. Lots of information comparing different systems, performance information, and old SGI press releases – you must have a look through here before you buy an SGI machine.

• Christopher Spry’s excellent SGI Indy/IRIX administration pages can be found at http://www.cspry.co.uk/computing/Indy_admin/Indy_admin_index.html

  A local mirror is available here

• Scott Henry maintains a very useful page covering how to install and configure PPP under IRIX. It used to be found on Reality at http://reality.sgi.com/scotth/remac/ppp-irix.config.html

  A local mirror can be found here

• Douglas Scott’s SGI Audio Apps page used to be found at http://reality.sgi.com/dscott/audio.apps/index.html.

  A local mirror can be found here

• Swift Grigg’s Indy ISDN FAQ can be found at http://www.reputable.com/textfiles/indyisdn.txt

• Reputable Systems has the excellent IndyTech pages, which have a very thorough summary of the SGI Indy.

• Jodeman’s SGI Stuff pages have been rescued by B&B Solutions, at http://www.bbsolutions.com/jodeman/

  A local mirror can be found here

• Chris Pirazzi’s The Lurker’s Guide to Video can be found at http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/index.html

  A local mirror can be found here

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This is a (by no means comprehensive) list of vendors for 2nd hand SGI kit. Many of them I’ve used myself.

• Ian Mapleson’s SGI Depot

  Ian has refreshed his site, and has a lot of good stuff for sale. I can recommend his CD sets and OS installs – he knows what he’s doing, and you end up with a very usable machine.

• SGD Systems

  Check out their clearance offers. They also tend to have a good stock of older parts.

• Rapid Technology Partners

  I bought a load of Indys from them when Ian Mapleson was helping them clear a large amount of stock. Worth talking to – they have some good deals.

• SGI Warehouse

  I haven’t dealt with Neil Stevenson, but Ian had some systems listed and the prices seem good.

• 13W3

  I’ve dealt with Ian before – good prices, and he usually has some goodies in the software section.

• Cordnet

  Their website tends to be a bit out of date, but Cordnet have some good deals, and a large stocklist. Well worth giving them a call to see if they have what you need in stock.

• Danic Ltd.

  Danic have some good stock and fairly keen prices – worth calling, as not all their stock list is online.

• AM IT Solutions

  Formed by one of the chaps from RTP. Their website doesn’t have much stock listed, but they do good deals on older kit. Worth calling.

• Reputable Systems

  Greg Douglas has excellent prices and is a great guy to deal with. Get one of his LED light bars for your Octane!

• Mini Computer Exchange

  MCE have a good range of stuff, and quick international shipping.

• B & B Solutions Inc.

  Based in Canada, they have some insane deals. Good guys to deal with

• SGI Remarketed Products

  Refurbished and off-lease kit direct from SGI.

• Mashek Systems

  Haven’t dealt with him, but his prices can be good. Usually has a good stock of VW 320s.

• XS International

  I’ve heard good things about them, and they seem to have a good list of parts and systems.

There is a range of different operating systems available for various machines produced by SGI. The main SGI Operating System home page can be found here.

• IRIX is SGI’s SVR4 based Unix.
  The IRIX hompage can be found at http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix/index.html

• Windows NT – SGI’s Visual Workstation range were Intel-based workstations running NT 4. Although there was a port of NT to MIPS, none of the MIPS powered SGI machines will run NT.
  The SGI NT home page used to be found at http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/nt/index.html. Check out http://www.webarchive.org to see if there are any archived pages left.

• Linux – SGI’s most recent range of servers are powered by Intel processors and run Linux. SGI has been quite active in the Linux community, extending existing parts of Linux, and making available SGI developed enhancements.
  The SGI Linux home page can be found at http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/linux/index.html

• Linux on SGI – the Linux on SGI home pages cover an SGI port of Linux to run on the Visual Workstations, as well as a MIPS port to run on the SGI Indy.
  The Linux on SGI home page can be found at http://www.linux.sgi.com

• NetBSD – there is a port of NetBSD to some of SGI’s MIPS based boxen.

If you’d like to see what SGI has been up to in the Open Source community, SGI has a page up within Developer Central.