Red Hat & Solaris port security

[Jose Muniz]

Well, to close the ports on a Sun or Linux box you need to comment
/etc/inetd.conf of the ports
that you do not want the box to respawn a process, that actually is a service
that is started by
inetd. So do that and get rid of telnet...  It must die!!! and other insecure
services that you are not
using.

Then you can also if you are a bit more paranoid, which you should be then
you comment
the port to services lines on /etc/services.

And then you kill -HUP the process.

At last the best option...
Do this and get a FIREWALL...!!!

The second one is the one you got to have...

Jose Muniz.



"Daniel L. Barnes" wrote:

> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone knew of commands within Red Hat and Solaris that
> you could manually shutdown and open up ports. Also, is there utilities
> that I can scan the ports to verify which ones are open and which ones are
> closed?
>
> Thankyou for all of your help in the past!
>
> db
>
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