[CLUE-Tech] enabling ftp

[Brandon N]

Don't remove services from /etc/services, you need to remove them from
/etc/inetd.conf, that is where the daemons are started, /etc/services
is just a protocol to port number lookup file, you will need that for
other things besides the daemons.

Brandon
--- rfrank <rfrank at rfrank.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 March 2001 17:51, Match (and others) wrote:
> > Roger,
> >
> > You ABSOLUTELY MUST DISABLE Telnet. Don't even use it. It uses
> cleartext
> > for everything.
> 
> 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?
> 
> And then there are the ipchains rules.  I think I understand that
> services
> are controlled by /etc/services, but the legal paths for individual
> packets
> are controlled by /etc/rc.firewall.  The firewall rules I am using
> are from
> the August 1999 issue of Linux Magazine.  The rule set is very short
> compared to all the long, complicated ones I've found on the net. 
> I'm
> thinking I'm not really safe with my always-on connection until there
> are a lot more ipchains entries.
> 
> So much to learn.
> 
> Roger Frank
> fun | more 2> /nev/dull
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