Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:53:06AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Yes, that is a good question. I do not know where most of them are used > > for, but because they are always installed, I assumed that these are > > needed for correct system operation. But even if I would disable these > > ports, I still want to use ftp, smtp and telnet only for my local network. > > if you don't know why your running them you don't need them. simple > as that.
Word of warning to Sebastian: I've missed the start of this thread, obviously, but how much do you trust your LAN? If it's a home affair, don't worry so much; if it's a corporate LAN, you'll always have *insiders* sniffing networks, remembering your passwords, being sacked and feeling disenchanted with you. Avoid ftp & telnet, and any other plain-text protocol, as much as humanly possible. (We don't run them in-house here, on the grounds that we find ssh & scp & rsync *more convenient* anyway. Maybe that's just us... ;) ~Tim -- 10:08:32 up 3 days, 14:12, 11 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Roobarb and Custard let fly http://piglet.is.dreaming.org |with their secret weapon.
