Re: Open Ports

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

Thanks for the help guys.

Here is what is on port 635.  
rpc.mount  253   root    5u  inet 0x02091414        0t0    TCP *:635
(LISTEN)

I will set up ssh next.



"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> If you're worried about security, you might consider using the :ext:
> method with ssh instead of rsh.  ssh is far preferable to telnet for
> shell access, too.
> 
> >>>>> "Antony" == Antony Stace <antony@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Antony> so can someone please tell me which of the following I can
>     Antony> turn off without breaking something.  I am a little
>     Antony> bewildered why the linuxconf program needs to be sitting
>     Antony> on a port, does anyone know why this is the case, can you
>     Antony> access this program over the network?
> 
> It would be convenient if you want to sit at one box and administer a
> bunch of networked machines, eg by script, no?
> 
> 25/tcp     open        smtp            # incoming mail, you tell us
> 37/tcp     open        time            # close this
> 98/tcp     open        linuxconf       # close this
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc          # NFS, etc; close it
> 113/tcp    open        auth            # only for IRC ;-)
> 139/tcp    open        netbios-ssn     # Samba; close it
> 513/tcp    open        login           # *yeee-eech* CLOSE IT
> 514/tcp    open        shell           # *yeee-eech* CLOSE IT
> 635/tcp    open        unknown         # dunno
> 
> You should find out what 635/tcp is.  lsof -i @example.com:635
> 
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