From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 21:58:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06761 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06744 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:58:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA16981; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jamie Lawrence cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980204134734.009944f0@colonel.42inc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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