Security for a first timer

Greg Lobring globring at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 22:53:32 UTC 2004


While I am fairly adept at making sure the services on my Windows box
are only the ones I need, I am not so learned for Linux. I use my
Fedora pc for email (Ximian), surfing (Firefox/Mozilla) and chatting
(Gaim). I am not using it as a mail server, ftp server, ssh server, or
file server of any sort. So my question is, what should/should not be
running to cut down on security risks? I think I was successful on not
running sendmail, but what else? Here are the  current results from
chkconfig --list, any of these that I would be well off  to disable?
Thanks!

ntpd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
psacct          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
iptables        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
snmptrapd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
mdmpd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
portmap         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcidmapd       0:on    1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:on
yum             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
readahead_early 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on    6:off
messagebus      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
smartd          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
rhnsd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
kudzu           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
isdn            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
sshd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
syslog          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
nfslock         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rawdevices      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
nfs             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
acpid           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcgssd         0:on    1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:on
vncserver       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
saslauthd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
microcode_ctl   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
autofs          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
readahead       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on    6:off
netplugd        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
cpuspeed        0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
gpm             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
irqbalance      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
lisa            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:on    6:off
mdmonitor       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
winbind         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
cups            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
pcmcia          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcsvcgssd      0:on    1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:on
irda            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
xfs             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
apmd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
netdump         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
snmpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
atd             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
xinetd based services:
        echo-udp:       off
        time:   off
        time-udp:       off
        daytime-udp:    off
        echo:   off
        ktalk:  off
        chargen:        off
        rsync:  off
        cups-lpd:       off
        daytime:        off
        sgi_fam:        on
        chargen-udp:    off
        services:       off





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