On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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?". > > Did you restart xinetd after removing pidentd? > > Regards, > Ansgar
Thank you - I restarted xinetd and the port seems to be closed now (at least according nmap and netstat). I guess since ident wasn't mentioned in xinetd.conf, I didn't think to restart it. Thanks again to everyone who replied, -- Jimmy Wu Registered Linux User #454138 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
