[olug] breakin?

[Mike McNally]

Tnat's what Brian was saying at the last meeting.  That often inetd is
unnecessary and 
a definite security risk.  More often I have heard the advice: go into
etc/inetd.conf and 
comment out all services you don't need.

mike


Christopher Garrity wrote:
> 
>         Look under /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and copy the *inetd* file to a name that doesn't
> start with an S... inetd starts network services at boot and gets its input from
> inetd.conf as to which services to start.
> 
> mesc wrote:
> >
> > In what file would I shut off ftpd and in.telnetd then?
> 
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