From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 13:42:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3050337B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-142-144.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.142.144]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA02118; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:41:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <017801c0ccff$02cf9820$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Sam Smith" , References: <200104241639.f3OGd3V00477@g3p1.miami.org> Subject: Re: inetd & Security Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:41:44 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been turning all those off for some time & nothing has broken .... I read someplace (the archives I think) that its OK to turn off everything you don't recognize because if you don't know what it is then you probably don't need it. That may be a bit simplistic but its the approach I adopted & it doesn't appear have had any reprecussions. Now lets see what some experts think :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Smith" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:39 AM Subject: inetd & Security > > Can I turn these off without causing any trouble? > > comsat dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/comsat comsat > ntalk dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd > ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l > telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd > > I have the only shell account and I don't care about that mail > notification thing. I don't know what that tcp6 stuff is unless freeBSD > is just getting ready for the future. I don't want to talk to anyone. > > I just want more security. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message