[olug] uneeded services

John Kennedy jkennedy at orent.com
Thu Jul 20 17:47:51 UTC 2000


Did you reboot the system (I forgot to add that...)>
John 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 7/20/00, 10:59:10 AM, mesc <mescie at home.com> wrote regarding Re: [olug] 
uneeded services:


> I went through and commented all the services I wanted off in 
/etc/services
> but a rescan with nmap shows their still there.If it matters I ran nmap 
with
> Ping Sweep,TCP&ICMPand Get Identd Info checked.Any ideas on why they're 
still
> there?

>             Thanks again,Gary Martin

> John Kennedy wrote:

> > Gary,
> > Try /etc/services.  Just comment out the services, don't delete
> > them...The file can also serve as a good reference to commom port uses...
> > John
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> > On 7/20/00, 10:27:09 AM, mesc <mescie at home.com> wrote regarding [olug]
> > uneeded services:
> >
> > > This is the output from an nmap scan on my machine...
> >
> > > Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor at insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
> > >  Interesting ports on omhan1.ne.home.com (24.3.227.28):
> > > (The 1511 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> > > Port       State       Service                 Owner
> > > 21/tcp     open        ftp                     root
> > > 23/tcp     open        telnet                  root
> > > 25/tcp     open        smtp                    postfix
> > > 98/tcp     open        linuxconf               root
> > > 110/tcp    open        pop-3                   root
> > > 111/tcp    open        sunrpc                  bin
> > > 113/tcp    open        auth                    root
> > > 656/tcp    open        unknown                 root
> > > 901/tcp    open        samba-swat              root
> > > 1024/tcp   open        kdm                     root
> > > 1031/tcp   open        iad2                    mesc
> > > 6000/tcp   open        X11                     root
> >
> > > The only service I use is X and occasionally telnet.I looked in
> > > inetd.conf for the services to comment out but they were not there.Where
> > > else could I look?
> >
> > >             Thank you,Gary Martin.
> >
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