At 05:11 PM 7/20/00 -0400, John Marr wrote:
>Hey all:
>
> I've been reading about linmux gateway securing, and I want to secure my
>slackware 7 box. The articles I have been reading talk about how to
>uninstall programs like telnet and ftp through the use of "rpm -e -nodeps
>..." Is there some way to do the same sort of thing with slackware?
Depends on the thing. Slackware uses a more simple-minded packaging system
than RH (and every other major distro), so you probably don't want to use
that approach.
So ... identify what you want to do and do the needed customizing by hand.
For example, I assume you want to close the ports that provide telnet and
ftp *services* (not remove the *clients*, even though that is what your
message actually says -- the services are provides by telnet and ftpd, while
telnet and ftp are clients). The simplest way to do this is to edit the file
/etc/inetd.conf . Look for the lines that start telnet and ftp service and
comment them out (put a # character at the beginning of each line). Save the
file and restart inetd (I think "killall -HUP inetd" will serve this purpose).
Whatever else you want to do, there will be a way to do it in Slackware. To
tell you the way, we need to know what the "it" is.
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Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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