[NBLUG] The Seawolf bit me!

[Lincoln Peters]

It _could_ be considered a feature, except that I frequently use many of the
services that inetd controls.  And since my network is behind a firewall and
I'm the only one who could possibly pull off an inside hacking job (no other
user has the slightest knowledge of the network's or the computer's inner
workings), I don't expect security problems from using Telnet instead of
ssh, etc. within the network.  Whenever I am working across the Internet, or
doing any sort of root login (inside the LAN or across the Internet), you
can rest assured that I will use ssh.

Anyway, it would appear that inetd no longer exists on my computer. 
However, I did find that xinetd is installed, configured, and running, but
still none of its services worked.  I then downloaded inetd-0.16-7 from
rpmfind.net, and once it isntalled, everything worked fine.

If I have unknowingly left security to chance please tell me!!!

------Original Message------
From: Kevin Jamieson <derf at sonic.net>
To: talk at nblug.org
Sent: May 5, 2001 2:22:31 AM GMT
Subject: Re: [NBLUG] The Seawolf bit me!


> 2. My system no longer works as an FTP server, Telnet server, etc. 
Whenever
> I try to get into it from anywhere on my LAN using anything except NFS or
> ssh, I get a "Connection refused" error.  Perhaps inetd is now messed up?

Strange, I'd kind of consider that a feature.

Check to make sure that inetd is running, and then check that inetd.conf
still exists under /etc

Derf


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