Re: Security

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From: Paul Richards
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:00

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Steve Dodd wrote:
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> There's an awful lot of stuff running there -- what distro are you using?

Debian potato.

> I'm wondering if inetd(8) is listening to many ports for which the associated
> programs aren't installed. It would certainly be worth reading about inetd
> and inetd.conf, and then having a rummage around in the latter file. Also
> read about tcpd and hosts_access for setting IP restrictions on services.
> 
> Also, I didn't see any *udp* listeners in there, which seems odd. netstat
> -ul will show those.

Since I still don't know what all those services are I'll leave them all
as is and just set up a firewall.

-- 
Paul Richards (Pauldoo) - http://www.pauldoo.co.uk

I've not ran any Microsoft code for 1381257 seconds.
    How about you?

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