Re: Listening daemons and security

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 04:51 PM 12/24/99 -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: [snip] >(2) monitor your logfiles. Some good logging tools that are available as >deb packages are ippl (IP Protocols logger), and iplogger (icmplogd, >tcplogd; also known as IP Paranoia Daemons) iplogger is a security risk, see the debian-security m

Re: Listening daemons and security

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 01:59 PM 12/24/99 -0700, Howard Mann wrote: [snip] >What is the purpose of "omniNames" ? Do I need it? Is it a security >risk? A security rule: If you don't what is is, remove it! >I guess I do not need "portmap." I do not use NFS. What is the best >way to shut it off? In potato: root# ki

Listening daemons and security

1999-12-24 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, I have just installed Slink. I have shut down many services - via /etc/inetd.conf - that I am familiar with and do not need. This is a stand-alone home machine. I do not offer services. At present, I have the following : /usr/sbin/lsof | grep LISTEN portmap 129 root 4u inet