Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-18 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Ski Dawg wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been doing some searching for information about disabling > services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different > opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. > > First off, the system is running a LAMP stack

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-17 Thread Eero Volotinen
www.cisecurity.org/tools2/linux/CIS_RHEL5_Benchmark_v1.1.pdf contains very good paper how to harden centos/rhel installation. -- Eero, RHCE ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-17 Thread Ski Dawg
Mark, John, and Miguel, Thank you for the information. I will take all of this into consideration with the rest of my research. I do appreciate your feedback and help. -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) Never trust a computer yo

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread Miguel Medalha
The following NSA document provides very good information on the secure configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/CentOS 5.x: Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf It goes through almost all the services and

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread John R Pierce
Ski Dawg wrote: > >From my research, the services that I am thinking of turning off are: > nfs (already off) > nfslock > portmap > rpccgssd > rpcidmapd > rpcsvcgssd > all safe to shut off if you're not serving NFS, NIS, etc. > apci power management. I believe you need acpid for things like s

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread m . roth
> Hello all, > > I have been doing some searching for information about disabling > services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different > opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. No brainer. > > First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web > application. It wil

[CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello all, I have been doing some searching for information about disabling services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web application. It will only be doing email to se