[techtalk] Tightening Security

[marisa mack]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:23:23PM -0800, damask0 sed:

> 2) Make sure that there aren't any ports listening that you don't need.
>  Go through /etc/services and comment out all the lines that are
> unnecessary.  (Careful what you lose, though.  For example, some MTA
> need identd.) Use

/etc/services is simply a list of assigned ports for common services,
editing or removing entries from the list will do nothing to protect
you machine. try /etc/inetd.conf or xinetd.d depending on your flavor/
version. this is of course in addition to all of the other steps people
have mentioned.

marisa

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