Re: Disabling Unnecessary Services from inetd.conf File

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc@alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 04/08/02 

Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:34:02 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org>
To: Kate.Schalon@Fluor.com

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:41:01AM -0800, Kate.Schalon@Fluor.com wrote:
> As part of an audit, we discovered the following services were enabled in
> our etc/inetd.conf file:
> xaudio

Xaudio was a proposed project for Solaris 2.6 that accidently got included in
inetd.conf despite never actually existing. Feel free to delete this line with
complete confidence knowing that the only effect it will have is removing an
error message from your syslog everytime you are port scanned.

________________________________________________________________________
Alan Coopersmith alanc@alum.calberkeley.org
http://soar.Berkeley.EDU/~alanc/ aka: Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM
  Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

PS. I know it's off-topic, but since I find those automatic legal
          gibberesh statements annoying, have you actually read yours?

> The information transmitted is intended only for the person
> or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential
> and/or privileged material.

You know that's incompatible with mail to publically archived mailing
list such as this one, right?

> please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

"any computer"? Are you really inviting people to break into your systems
and delete the mail from your sent mail folder as well? Are you encourgaging
them to break into the computers of the other subscribers to the mailing list
to delete it?