[ale] unidentified processes

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

For maximum security on a firewall, run NOTHING but firewall code. Have
no other code on the box. Have no compiler. Have the file system marked
immutable. Have no more space on the drives. Run everything from a CD.

Require blood samples on root login. Chilipowder retina scan to change
permissions on any file. And that's just for the nice people, like
admins ;)

For the users who request that "holes" be opened for their stuff, refer
them to the SouthPark "Cartman's Anal Probe" show for suggestions on
user authentication.

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 20:15, John Wells wrote:
> In addition to ftp and ssh, I have two processes
> running on ports 111 and 1024.  They both seem to work
> with rpc, and are the portmapper and rpc.statd
> respectively.
> 
> Can I disable these processes without any effect to my
> system?  If so, I assume I just remove the links to
> the startup scripts from my runlevel's startup
> directory.
> 
> Also, how insecure is it to run ftp on my
> router/firewall box?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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