Re: Redhat 7.0:Securing system

[Patrick Benson]

Hans Scheffers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have done a out of the box install of redhat 7, this doesn't work anymore
> with inet.d but with xinetd.d
> When I look in the directory / config of xinetd.d, I have almost no services
> that I use, just ssh, ftp. smtp and pop
> 
> When I do a portscan on the system with nmap I get the following result:
>  nmap -sS localhost
> 
> Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA7 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
> Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
> (The 1501 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)

Since you are hardly using any services why not just turn xinet.d off?
In Slackware there are some entries for turning off the superserver in
rc.inet2. Those services that you need would probably run fine on their
own. Open them up as you need them....


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Patrick Benson
Stockholm, Sweden
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