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Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.



On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:06:30PM +1200, arthur_dent wrote:
> I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a home computer but may 

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> One of these 
> is "portmap". I notice this is enabled by default (I think) on Woody. Can I 
> safely uninstall this service/program without affecting my p.c.?

Yes.

> Also they recomend disabling nfs...I have "nfs-common" and nfs-kernel-server" 
> installed. Can I safely disable these too?

Yes. 

> I dont require them for apt-get 
> updates etc?

No.

-- 
Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Hans Ekbrand

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