Re: secure /etc/fstab

From: nospam55 (nospa_at_no.yahoo.no)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:43:34 +0200

> No idea what you are asking or what you are worried about. You are a
> client, not a server.

> It would sem to me that neither of the questions you ask are critical for
> the security of your system

Services are not the only source of dangers.
If somebody cracks my IRC client that runs as userX, I feel more safe if
userX can't mount M$win98 /mnt/win_c according to /etc/fstab.

> Depending on his distro, he didn't specified, 'chkconfig --list'
> should show what is configured to run in which runlevel.

my distro is a "Linux Professional", I think means RedHat 8.0 more ore less;
moreover:

    # chkconfig --list
    ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
    network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
    portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
    apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    irda 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    isdn 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
    keytable 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    snmpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    snmptrapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
    iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
    rhnsd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    pcmcia 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    lpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
    firstboot 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    winbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
    xinetd based services:
            chargen-udp: off
            chargen: off
            daytime-udp: off
            daytime: off
            echo-udp: off
            echo: off
            services: off
            servers: off
            time-udp: off
            time: off
            sgi_fam: on
            rsync: off
    #

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