Re: [Solved] Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] xinetd uses separate configuration files for each of the services it provides (assuming your /etc/xinetd.conf has the line includedir /etc/xinetd.d per the Debian default). Part of the pidentd package is an xinetd config file that is placed in the /etc/xinetd.d directory. When you uninstalled pidentd that file was removed, but you still had to restart xinetd for it to reread its config (which no longer included the ident service). OK - that makes sense now. Thanks! -- Jimmy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved] Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:03:10PM -0400, Jimmy Wu wrote: 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. xinetd uses separate configuration files for each of the services it provides (assuming your /etc/xinetd.conf has the line includedir /etc/xinetd.d per the Debian default). Part of the pidentd package is an xinetd config file that is placed in the /etc/xinetd.d directory. When you uninstalled pidentd that file was removed, but you still had to restart xinetd for it to reread its config (which no longer included the ident service). Thanks again to everyone who replied, Jimmy Wu --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved] Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd
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]
