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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:20:46 +0400
From:      "dotslash" <dotslash@linif.org>
To:        "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, "Sam Smith" <sam@spiderpubs.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: inetd & Security
Message-ID:  <010f01c0cd54$5334a580$2903010a@atg.altayer.com>
References:  <200104241639.f3OGd3V00477@g3p1.miami.org> <017801c0ccff$02cf9820$0400a8c0@oracle>

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on my other *nix boxes inetd is not even running and they've been up for
>365 days.  no problemo.

my 2cents.

PS. okay it's only 360 days. the 5 days i blame the electrician.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
To: "Sam Smith" <sam@spiderpubs.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: inetd & Security


> 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" <sam@spiderpubs.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 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.
> >
> >
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