Edenyard wrote: > > What are all these 'services' that you say people start and > then leave running?
FTP server, telnet server, web server, stuff like that. These provide potential entry points for crackers. > Would I have them running after a bogstandard Slackware 8 > installation procedure? I don't have Slackware 8, so I can't say. However, if you do 'ps -ax' you will see all the processes running. Look for processes ending in d (eg. inetd, nfsd, lpd) and tell us their names. BTW, if inetd is running, then all the services listed (without #) in /etc/inetd.conf will be running. The surest way to check your vulnerabilites is to scan your ports (either locally or from a remote system). Netcat can be used to do this. Do 'which nc' to see if netcat is on your system. BTW, BasicLinux has a 'scan' command which does port scans. Cheers, Steven
