I just got a cable modem and I'm loving it, but I am concerned about
security. I was instructed to comment out many lines in my
/etc/inetd.conf file, especially the ones that I didn't know how to
configure or what they were. In addition, I was told to turn off any
services that I didn't want to make available to the internet including:
nfs, nfsfs, portmap, routed, rusersd, rwho, sendmail, smb, snmpd, and
ypbind.
The only one of these that is running at the moment is portmap, but I'm
not sure how to stop it from running.
I was given a few programs (none of which I can find) from a list that
is predominantly populated by Redhat users. Some of their suggestions
were tksysv, ntsysv, and chkconfig, but I haven't found any of these. I
stumbled across a gRunlevels program which is a gtk-based sysv runlevel
editor. However, after compiling/installing the libs it required, then
installing it (it came as a binary only, and I found no other link to
its source) it crapped out on me because it looked for init.d to be
/etc/rc.d.
Can anyone point me to a program that can hadle this on a Debian system,
or to some documentation that will let me do it by hand?
TIA
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