----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I
> > don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on
Win98
> > SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd
> > like to know about them.
> >
> Well, as I said earlier (our messages probably crossed in
> the email. <G>) it *probably* is a security risk because
> that service MAY be for running LinuxConf from remote. You
> can still run LinuxConf from the local console, even with
> that turned off.
> I'm just going by what my mentor/boss said and
> extrapolating. That's why I go into inetd.conf and comment
> out every service in there...I don't want to leave ANY of
> those services available. :-)
That seems fair enough - after all, who's macine is it anyway! ;-)
I am not certain I can imagine exactly why anyone would actually want to be
able to set things from the web anyway -maybe it has yet to dawn on me. More
probably, I missed the point!
Regards,
Ian
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