[CLUE-Tech] enabling ftp

[Lynn Danielson]

rfrank wrote:
> 
> Ok so now ftp, telnet, and POP3 are disabled.  I'll use ssh when I get that
> installed.  But when I was removing telnet from /etc/services, I saw there
> were many many other services not commented out.  Are the other services
> secure -- I never hear them mentioned?

Every service in /etc/services must have an analogous entry in 
/etc/inetd.conf for it to work.  Some distributions are shipping
with a services file that contains all of the commonly used 
services on the port they're typically associated with.  But if
they don't have an entry in inetd.conf, you should have to worry
whether they are commented out or not.

Lynn Danielson