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Re: Daemons & Ports and stuff



I'm no expert, but perhaps I can help a little.

You should not have two ftp entries.  If I were you I would install either
proftp or wu-ftp because these are more secure that ftpd.  After doing so
check inetd again and make sure that the present lines are commented out.

I have echo and chargen commented out but discard, daytime and time are
functional.  I don't know much about them except for the reference in
the man page for inetd.conf:-

     Inetd provides several ``trivial'' services internally by use of routines
     within itself.  These services are ``echo'', ``discard'', ``chargen''
     (character generator), ``daytime'' (human readable time), and ``time''
     (machine readable time, in the form of the number of seconds since mid
     night, January 1, 1900).  All of these services are tcp based.  For de-
     tails of these services, consult the appropriate RFC from the Network In-
     formation Center.

Hmmm, maybe I will put echo and chargen back in.

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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:

> Hi. Afew questions.
> 1. I was checking to see what services my computer was running today with nmap.
> And there was all sorts of stuff like daytime and chargen that I don't use, so
> I removed all the extraneous entries in /etc/inetd.conf (using comments),
> leaving only ftp and telnet. Is this okay; do I need any of the others?
> 
> 2. Why are there two entries for ftp in /etc/inetd.conf?
> ftp             stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
> ftp             stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/ftpd 
> 
> 3. After restarting inetd nmap still reported something called sunrpc on port
> 111. What is this/Do I need it/How do I remove it if not?
> 
> 4. Can I get Apache and sshd to run from inetd instead of on their own?
> 
> Thanks for any insight,
> Timothy
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> Date: 10-Jul-98
> Time: 14:08:23
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