security lockdown

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri May 11 01:43:22 UTC 2001


At 03:17 AM 5/10/01, peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid wrote:

>Hayden Wimmer <hwimmer at bakerref.com> wrote:
>
> > does anyone know where i can find information on what services i can
> > disable???
>
> > the /etc/services file has a whole mess of things i am afraid to touch...
>
> > this is a dedicated dns server...i dont need anything running on it except
> > bind.
>
> > also, i have heard that if i desable the wrong services that i may not be
> > able to access my machine any longer...
>
> > any advice from the pros?
>Depends on what OS it uses, what services you need ( you mentioned 
>dns and "unspecified login" sp far)
>
>comp.security.misc or comp.security.unix is a much better
>forum for these questions.

         You will need ntp for proper secure authentication for control and updates
  if you use nsupdate.

                 Danny



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