Re: Security: Compromised?
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:39:18PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> to me, this doesn't look good. half of these services i know i do not have
> installed, neither do they show up on a ps aux. I'm running tcpwrappers and
> portsentry, could this have something to do with it?
Yes. portsentry listens on many ports (including all unused but
'interesting' ones) and reports on attempts to connect to them. If you're
running portsentry and want to see what ports are meaningfully open on the
box, you have to temporarily shut down portsentry while the scan is
performed.
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