I should have sent this in my first reply, but all you need to do is add the "-x lmdown" and "-x lmremove" options to the command line when you start lmgrd. That disables the feature. -- Nathan On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 11:33:32AM -0700, Kemasa wrote: > >From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private > >... > >Well, here's an oldie but goodie, which we first saw at least 3 years > >ago. Lo and behold, it's apparently STILL broken. Sorry, no vendor > >notification - we told them 3 years ago. ;) > > > >FlexLM 'lmdown' command will chow your license server from anywhere on > >the Internet - all you need is a copy of the license file. The > >authentication appears to be "Well, you appear to be root on the > >machine that you typed 'lmdown' on". > > Have you looked at the switch options for lmgrd? If you had you > would find that there is an option to limit the ability to take > down the license daemons to a specific group, which basically > stops what you are talking about. I think it is also possible > to completely ignore a lmdown command since it would be possible > to try all possible group ids. > > It is a bit of a problem that they set it up that way by default > and since you need not run it as root, you should change the > owner to something else, change the options and a clean up > the way the log files work. > > You DO have the option of changing the functionality though, > so you really can't blame them for your not looking at the > man pages on the program. > > > > Kemasa. > ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneulat_private University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
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