i installed Gentoo 031015 & am very pleased with it, but still learning.

there are  4  daemons in  /etc/init.d  for remote access to my box:
 sshd slapd slurpd rsyncd .  i've checked their man pages
& all appear to be running as servers for things i don't need or want.
i do want to use 'ssh', but that's unaffected when i remove 'sshd'.

two questions: am i correct that i can remove these scripts from  init.d
without interfering with the ordinary functioning of my system ?
and why are they set up by default on a Gentoo system,
when they cd cause a security problem for a naive -- mb me -- user ?

and perhaps a 3rd question: are there any other similar items in  init.d ?

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