Re: Disableling unsecure services ?
On Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 01:58:42PM +0100, Marcus Geiger wrote:
> I tried to disable all 'unsecure' network-services on my machine. I started with commenting out the rpc-based entries in /etc/inetd.conf.
> But when I'am doing a netstat -a, it seems that those services still are hanging around listening. Ok I cannot start any of those services (tried it with e.g. rsh).
>
> Is this normal Or should I do something completly different ?
> In my local network I want telnet.
> And 'normal' I want: ssh, smtp, nntp, talk.
Did you restart inetd after editing inetd.conf? (With "killall -hup inetd"?)
Some other rpc services (like nfs and the portmapper) are started in
/etc/init.d/netstd_*, you might want to edit those too.
Hamish
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