Hi, I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as ident. I am trying to remove this service since I don't think I need it, but I can't figure out how. I removed the package pidentd, after which nmap reported the port was still open, but changed its service description to "auth?". I have no other identd related packages installed on my system. I used netstat to find the process listening on port 113 and it seems to be xinetd. The exact listing of the process in `ps` is root 6766 1 0 17:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid -stayalive -inetd_compat -inetd_ipv6
I've pasted my /etc/xinetd.conf file at the end - it is really short and doesn't contain anything relating to ident. An ls on /etc/xinetd.d shows these files: chargen daytime discard echo time I should also mention that xinet seems only to be listening on the default ipv6 address ::, and not on any ipv4 addresses. I don't think removing xinetd is the right way to go, but I haven't been able to find any answers on google. And I don't want to go about blocking ports on my firewall as that doesn't seem to me like a real solution - I just want to stop/remove the process that is listening on this port. Thanks in advance for your help! -- Jimmy Wu Registered Linux User #454138 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments $cat xinetd.conf # Simple configuration file for xinetd # # Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/ defaults { # Please note that you need a log_type line to be able to use log_on_success # and log_on_failure. The default is the following : # log_type = SYSLOG daemon info } includedir /etc/xinetd.d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]