Questions concerning Security Log

[Paul Howarth]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 10:57 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>If you're not currently using ssh you could turn it off until such time
>>as you're going to start using it:
>># service sshd stop
>># chkconfig sshd off
> 
> 
> OK, I stopped ssh for now. When I did service sshd stop I got output,
> but when I did chkconfig sshd off I got none. Is this supposed to
> return any output?

Both of these are as expected. Using "service sshd stop" should produce 
the same "Stopping sshd [ OK ]" sort of output that you get when you 
shut down the machine.

> Paul, and everybody else, thank you for helping me. Now that ssh is
> off for the time being, I'm not so worried and I'll learn to secure it
> with iptables before I enable it.

Good plan.

Paul.