Re: secure /etc/fstab

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Date: 3 Jul 2004 21:11:28 GMT

nospam55 <nospa@no.yahoo.no> writes:

]> 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.

How do they crack your IRC client? You have to be using it.

Also, the standard rule of thumb, is that if someone gets onto your system
as a user, they can get on as root. A system is far far more vulnerable to
insiders than outsiders.

]> 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:

And you run at which runlevel--3 or 5?

Why is nfslock running if nfs is not running (runlevel 3)

] # 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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