On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:46:40PM -0800, aphro@portal.aphroland.org wrote: > > the best way ive found to disable portmap is to rename /sbin/portmap > to something else. there are so many different things that may call > on it, its just easier for me to rename it then modify a bunch of just make sure you rename it with dpkg-divert or else you will just get a new /sbin/portmap the next time netbase gets upgraded (say if there were a security release). fortunatly in woody portmap is split into its very own package so you can disable it the Right Way: apt-get --purge remove portmap ;-) myself i have not had problems with just doing a simple rm -f /etc/rcS.d/*portmap, along with purging nfs-common, nfs-*server, and nis (which is not priority standard). > scripts. as for smtp it depends what MTA your using, if you dont > plan on having a mail server i would reccomend using postfix as it's > easy to get it to listen on the internal network interfaces and > not the external. domain is the DNS, usually bind. you can remove > it if you want. ssh is fine. > > also be sure to run a UDP portscan as well. (nmap -sU) i also > reccomend if your not already to scan all ports with -p 1-65535 hehe and then go away for a week or three while it works on that ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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