From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 12:57:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08113 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:57:47 -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 MAA08060 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:57:39 -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 MAA15975; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:40:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chas cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980204135923.0093ebb0@peace.com.my> 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, 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