If you don't pop mail from this machine, turn off inetd completely (you
don't need it). If you do, put a # sign in front of all _except_ pop3,
then stop and start inetd.
Then also run:
netstat -tupan
and look at all your open ports. If you don't need the service, turn it
off. If you only
On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:31 am, David A. Bandel wrote:
If you don't pop mail from this machine, turn off inetd completely (you
don't need it).
I think that Daddy may need to keep the 2 lines in inetd.conf;
/var/run/.ppp_socket stream unixnowait root
/usr/sbin/ppp-envoy
With my recent hacker scare I decided to look into my security. Here
is a portion of my inetd.conf file. I only use my internet
connection receive email (pop3) and surf the internet at this point.
What can I turn off?
#echo dgram udp waitrootinternal
discard stream tcp
daddy wrote:
With my recent hacker scare I decided to look into my security. Here
is a portion of my inetd.conf file. I only use my internet
connection receive email (pop3) and surf the internet at this point.
What can I turn off?
SNIP
SxS - Security:
http://sxs.homeip.net/security.html
