[Gllug] Core Services

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:46:42AM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
[...]
> I have my own theories, but I'm Just curious to know, for a base build
> which ones other people turn off. I'm writing a little how-to for someone
> else to follow on hardening the base install, so other ideas and
> experiences would be welcome. My own recent experience with a few hosting
> companies is "none at all - we're behind a firewall"....

My usual post-flight sanity check is "netstat -tuwlp" (possibly with -n as
well) to see what's listening on the network, and then nobble anything I
didn't expect to see. It also gives a quick sanity-check as to which ports
you should be putting in your iptables rules.

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