Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 13:47:34 -0800 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@42is.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980204134734.009944f0@colonel.42inc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204123645.15689I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <3.0.32.19980204135923.0093ebb0@peace.com.my>
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At 12:40 PM 2/4/98 -0800, Doug wrote: >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. What does netstat do with it? Read it for port <-> name mappings? That I can live without. Attacking /etc/services, installing tcpd and then (of course) going over inetd.conf are pretty much the first things I do on any installation. Of any Unix. "Don't play with /etc/services" seems like pretty general advice not applicable in all (or perhaps even most) situations. -j
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