From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 13:52:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19557 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stage1.thirdage.com (stage1.ThirdAge.com [204.74.82.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19442 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jal@42is.com) Received: from goober (gigi.ThirdAge.com [204.74.82.169]) by stage1.thirdage.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA24252; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:47:53 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980204134734.009944f0@colonel.42inc.com> X-Sender: jal@colonel.42inc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 13:47:34 -0800 To: Doug White From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Re: minimalist /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf Re: Security Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.32.19980204135923.0093ebb0@peace.com.my> 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" 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