Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 15:19:37 -0800 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@42is.com> To: Ronald Kuehn <kuehn@rz.tu-clausthal.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980204151937.009b37d0@colonel.42inc.com> In-Reply-To: <199802042243.XAA00434@sinfonix.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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At 11:43 PM 2/4/98 +0100, you wrote: >In list.freebsd-questions you write: >> "Don't play with /etc/services" seems like pretty general advice >> not applicable in all (or perhaps even most) situations. > >Again, "don't play with /etc/services". It's for mappings between >port numbers and service names only. It has nothing do to with services >you currently run. That's the job of inetd (/etc/inetd.conf) and >/etc/rc.* (for running standalone services). >Removing lines from /etc/services buys you nothing but trouble. I'm well aware of the function of /etc/services, and I disagree. Should that be what one wants to do, then that would be the proper course of action. A machine running little other than an httpd and sshd has no need to know that port 4045 maps to lockd. And so on. -j
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