From: Chris Hoogendyk (choogend@library.umass.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 21:45:03 EDT
Why does Solaris (e.g. 8) have so many ports open even when I've gone
through inetd.conf and commented out virtually everything?
I've got several web guides to securing Solaris. I've seen the SysAdmin
Magazine articles on locking down Solaris. I've done all that stuff. But
I still have ports open whose purposes and sources I don't understand.
Does anyone know where there is a guide or discussion of the absolute
minimum necessary and what you lose or don't lose by shutting down
everything else? I don't want to use a port blocking mechanism. I use
tcpwrappers to regulate access to ports that I do want open. It seems I
should find the source of excess ports and actually shut down the
processes that are opening them. I presume a lot of them come from rc2.d
or rc3.d.
I'm getting hammered by some linux folks who think I should only have
about 2 ports open.
TIA
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Chris Hoogendyk
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O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services
(*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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