Most of inetd's services can be initially locked down with tcpd, then
backuped and further locked down with ipchains.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bret,
>
> Approximately 65% of email sent usually touches a variant of SendMail
> while it is transversing the Internet. Not bad for an application that
> was someone's graduate school project.
>
> SendMail Commercial is very good.. :)
>
>
>
> "Kill them all and let inetd sort them out" :)
>
>
>
>
> "mouss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 06/05/00 06:48 AM
>
>
> To: "Technical Incursion Countermeasures" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "reggie"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: A Newbie Question
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> > ok firstly kill off sendmail and replace it with qmail (www.qmail.org)
>
> "just say no". while I am not a fan of sendmail, while qmail is
> certainly a good MTA, there is no complete and rigourous proof that
> would make it necessary for everybody to just replace sendmail with
> qmail.
>
> Sendmail is still widely used, and not only by stupid people.
> Also, the FWTK's smap and smapd have been and are still used with
> sendmail, even on the Gauntlet, and nobody seems to say that this
> is stupid.
>
>
> > Then start killing off un-needed services (use nmap to find whats
> running
> > on your machine - www.insecure.org)
> > ..
>
>
> A good starting point for a linux user is
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html
>
> regards,
>
> mouss
>
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