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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for waving me off, Jim and
Michael :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wasn't going to destroy or eliminate
/etc/services, just try substituting something for it while preserving the
original....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but I appreciate the alert anyway.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any other guidance would also be
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cordially,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Courtney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jim.kinney@gmail.com href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">Jim
Kinney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mhw@wittsend.com
href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</A> ; <A title=ale@ale.org
href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 20, 2008 4:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ale] Which /etc/services to
allow for secure web browsing &email ?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>DITTO on Mike's note!! Leave it alone. Bad things will
happen.<BR>bad things...<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2008/12/20 Michael H. Warfield <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV class=Ih2E3d>On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 11:48 -0500, Courtney Thomas
wrote:<BR>> My services file has thousands of entries. I assume
those<BR>> without # at the beginning are enabled.<BR><BR></DIV>
No. Not correct. /etc/services is merely a
lookup file mapping<BR>service names to well known port numbers and
protocols. It, in and of<BR>itself, doesn't enable anything.
Sort of like what the /etc/hosts file<BR>does for looking up
systems.<BR>
<DIV class=Ih2E3d><BR>> What I was thinking was to make a copy of it and
edit out almost everything<BR>> or<BR>> possibly better yet,....
create a new minimized one rather than trying to<BR>> digest<BR>> the
myriad entries .<BR><BR>> What minimum should remain to permit secure web
browsing and email ?<BR><BR></DIV> Highly
recommended that you do not go down this road or every service<BR>that uses
getservicebyname() may potentially be broken. Do not do this.<BR>
<DIV class=Ih2E3d><BR>> What services am I overlooking with this idea
that would possibly be a<BR>> mistake ?<BR><BR></DIV>
The file doesn't do what you think it does therefore you
don't<BR>understand the function of the file thus making tampering with it
a<BR>mistake.<BR><BR>> Appreciatively,<BR><BR>> Courtney<BR><BR>
Mike<BR><FONT color=#888888>--<BR>Michael H. Warfield
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