At 11:27 PM 7/11/00 -0400, John Marr wrote:
>Does anyone know how I can close port 113 on my Linux box. I believe that
>this is used for irc connections, among other things. I am running
>Slackware 7.0.
>From /etc/services
auth 113/tcp authentication tap ident
The ident service is used to authenticate your host, most often by IRC but
sometimes by other services (e.g., smtp mail).
To turn it off, just figure out what has it turned on. The likely candidate
is a n entry in /etc/inetd.conf . If you find a line there for ident, just
comment it out, then restart or re-HUP inetd (probably with "killall -HUP
inetd").
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Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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