hi, i am trying to secure a machine running redhat 9. the nmap results kind of puzzle me. i would appreciate some help on this. What I don't understand is the following. a) why does it show that the there is netbois ports b) why mysql is shown as unauthorised. c) why is it showiing tftp as filtered. why it is open in the first place I have attached the output of grep disable /etc/xinetd.d/* below. I would appreciate some help on this. with regards john doe ------------------------ 69/tcp filtered tftp 109/tcp open pop2 UW POP2 server 2001.63rh 110/tcp open pop3 UW Imap pop3 server 2001.78rh 135/tcp filtered msrpc 137/tcp filtered netbios-ns 138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn 143/tcp open imap UW imapd 2001.315rh 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds 993/tcp open ssl/imap UW imapd 2001.315rh 995/tcp open ssl/pop3 UW Imap pop3 server 2001.78rh 3306/tcp open mysql MySQL (unauthorized) 10000/tcp open http Webmin httpd ------------ ./amanda: disable = yes ./amandaidx: disable = yes ./amidxtape: disable = yes ./chargen: disable = yes ./chargen-udp: disable = yes ./comsat: disable = yes ./daytime: disable = yes ./daytime-udp: disable = yes ./dbskkd-cdb: disable = yes ./echo: disable = yes ./echo-udp: disable = yes ./eklogin: disable = yes ./finger: disable = yes ./gssftp: disable = yes ./imap: disable = no ./imaps: disable = no ./ipop2: disable = no ./ipop3: disable = no ./klogin: disable = yes ./krb5-telnet: disable = yes ./kshell: disable = yes ./ntalk: disable = yes ./pop3s: disable = no ./rexec: disable = yes ./rlogin: disable = yes ./rsh: disable = yes ./rsync: disable = yes ./servers: disable = yes ./services: disable = yes ./swat: disable = yes ./talk: disable = yes ./telnet: disable = yes ./tftp: disable = yes ./time: disable = yes ./time-udp: disable = yes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list