Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:52:12PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Now that I have nothing listening to the outside world, do I still > need a firewall? I have been using firestarter, but not consistently. > I look at a firewall as icing on the cake. If you reject and log local to net, anything t

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the general rule of thumb, is if you dont use it, turn it off. I'd turn > off almost every thing. You can leave exim and famd on. > to turn auth off, you can edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the line > that starts with ident. > > for port

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread mouss
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cable at work. 1) I nev

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cabl

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cabl

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:11:55PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear > on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm > running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at > home or at cafes,

essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cable at work. 1) I never login remotely, so