On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> I've heard that the inetd process is not very secure.
> Also, my email server runs fine even if I kill the inetd process.
Because it runs standalone :-)
> Is there a way to remove it or disable it permanently.
> Would this be a good thing to do? Or will it just cause
> me problems down the road.
inetd is not really insecure, it the junk people start from it that is
insecure (finger, telnet, god knows what else). inetd is a very
useful memory saver for services you want to run on year machine, but
only want them run when needed.
You can disable it if you like by running
update-rc.d -f inetd remove
(note: this is the way you modify init scripts in debian)
Or, you can go through /etc/inetd.conf and comment out (with a "#")
all the stuff you don't need. If you don't know what it is or does,
you probably don't need it.
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initech {huckster AT r00tserverz.net}
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