Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jamie Lawrence <jal@42is.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204215806.16875G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980204134734.009944f0@colonel.42inc.com>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > At 12:40 PM 2/4/98 -0800, Doug wrote: > > >We went berzerk in 2.2.x and disabled all of this already, and more (lpd > >for instance). > > > >Don't play with /etc/services, netstat uses it to make your life easier. > > What does netstat do with it? Read it for port <-> name mappings? > That I can live without. > > Attacking /etc/services, installing tcpd and then (of course) > going over inetd.conf are pretty much the first things I do on > any installation. Of any Unix. > > "Don't play with /etc/services" seems like pretty general advice > not applicable in all (or perhaps even most) situations. OK, then why edit services? It's a text database, nothing more. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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