Re: rlinetd security
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:53:06AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > Yes, that is a good question. I do not know where most of them are used
> > for, but because they are always installed, I assumed that these are
> > needed for correct system operation. But even if I would disable these
> > ports, I still want to use ftp, smtp and telnet only for my local network.
>
> if you don't know why your running them you don't need them. simple
> as that.
Word of warning to Sebastian: I've missed the start of this thread,
obviously, but how much do you trust your LAN? If it's a home affair, don't
worry so much; if it's a corporate LAN, you'll always have *insiders*
sniffing networks, remembering your passwords, being sacked and feeling
disenchanted with you.
Avoid ftp & telnet, and any other plain-text protocol, as much as humanly
possible. (We don't run them in-house here, on the grounds that we find ssh
& scp & rsync *more convenient* anyway. Maybe that's just us... ;)
~Tim
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