On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Todd Caine wrote:
recommended and security related patches from the vendor of the OS, then I comment out almost every service in /etc/inetd.conf. You don't want to be using services like fingerd and telnetd most likely. I usually only run sshd, secure RPC, and httpd. I would also recommend using tcp wrappers for the tcp services that you enable.
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