Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:40:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204123645.15689I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980204135923.0093ebb0@peace.com.my>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, chas wrote: > Following the advice of a security book to disable all un-required > services, I was quite amazed at the default /etc/services for > FBSD (using 2.1.7). Literally hundreds of weird and wonderful services. 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. 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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