RE: How do I shut down this ports

["Karl Dyson" <kdyson messagelabs com>]

>From a security point of view, at least the default settings for iptables will prevent abuse of the open ports, but as you point out, they shouldn't be open by default. Additional layers of security and all that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Jenner [mailto:psj home ntlworld com]
Sent: 05 August 2003 19:55
To: rhl-beta-list redhat com
Subject: Re: How do I shut down this ports


On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 05:54, Louis Garcia wrote:
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc
> 6000/tcp   open        X11
> 
> Should these be open be default?

Reading the responses, the most interesting part of your question seemed
tactfully avoided on the list :-)

If Sun RPC and X over TCP are open by default, should they continue to
be? How many of the non-tech community use NFS/NIS/NIS+ or connect to X
remotely without ssh tunneling?

Paul




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