I would suggest against it. There will definitely be
config combinations of inetd + identd that will allow
a connection to a listener port even though it's not
in the services list.
If you don't want ppl to connect to a service at all,
shut it off, if you want only secure connections,
enable connections only from localhost and make them
use ssh tunnels.
Arup
--- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering - instead of shutting down a
> service, if I instead
> comment that service from /etc/services - will this
> be enough to disable
> the use of the service? I think this will work for
> services run from
> inetd, but will it also work for stuff like rpc/smtp
> which have deamons
> running??
>
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