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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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