From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 9: 1:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BEF37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcC-018.sub-c.lee.net [208.205.126.18]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23051; Wed, 9 May 2001 11:01:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3AF969A9.2F197685@journalstar.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 11:00:41 -0500 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Kok Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: port 113 References: <3AF940C8.869A3B37@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look in /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the ident service, and any other services you don't need then send a HUP to inetd. As far as it being "harmful", there's always a chance that any service you run will have a security hole, possibly it just hasn't been found yet. So why take a chance? Turn off everything you don't need. Here's a good link to get you started on "locking down" your FreeBSD box: http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#tat Peter Kok wrote: > > Hi all > > I discover the port 113 open by using nmap > Is it harmful my system? > > And how do I cancel this port? > > auth 113/tcp authentication tap ident > > Thank you > > regards > Peter > > 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