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Re: How to prevent daemons from ever being started?



Hi,

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:49:36PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Please see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html#s-disableserv
> 
> and the preceeding paragraph:
> 
> "If you want to keep some services but use them rarely, use the
> update-commands, e.g. update-inetd and update-rc.d to remove them from the
> startup process. For more information on how to disable network services read
> Disabling daemon services, Section 3.6.1. If you want to change the default
> behaviour of starting up services on installation of their associated
> packages[4] use policy-rc.d, please read
> /usr/share/doc/sysv-rcREADME.policy-rc.d.gz for more information."
> 
> I believe all the mechanisms dissuggested in this thread are already there.

Yes, policy-rc.d indeed looks like it does what I want, thanks!


Uwe.
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