ports ports and more ports.

Please look for the * for my response.

Don Harrop wrote:

I've been looking at a lot of the ports in the services file as
well as what
nmap finds when I do some port scans and I'm not sure what some of
the ports
that are opened do or if they need to be opened for network
activity at all.
In other words if I disable them will my system stop functioning?

  111    sunrpc

* close this. not needed

  113    auth

* identd authorization port. depending on whether you go on irc
or not, you may want to keep this one open.

  513    login

* You can close this one (not needed for outide stuff)

  514    shell

* close this one too.

  515    lpd

* Unless you want to have people print to your printer from the
outside network I'd close this



I pretty much get the meaning of what each one is from the name
except
sunrpc. Do they need to have an open port for someone to function
on a
local host though? Are there any serious ramifications if I
disabled them?

Don

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