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Listing 1: Services in inetd that should be turned off (excluding telnet and ftp)

shell        - Remote Shell
login        - Remote Login
exec        - Remote Execution
comsat             - notification of mail on local host
talk        - permits users to talk to one another using the talk program
name             - support for the obsolete DARPA name server protocol
uucp        - Unix to Unix Copy 
tftp        - Trivial File Transfer program
finger        - provides information about users on a system
systat         - provides system information to remote clients         
netstat     - provides network information to remote systems
time
echo
discard 
daytime     - support for returning the time of day
chargen     - character generator
sadmind     - used by Soltice AdminSuite
rquotad        - needed only to show quotas for a user of an NFS filesystem
rusersd     - provides information on system users
sprayd         - used only for testing.
rstatd         - needed by perfmeter - use xload.
rwalld         - allows non-local individuals to post messages to users on a
          system
rexd         - RPC server for remote program execution - minimal 
          authentication
ufsd        - only needs to be uncommented if Solstice DiskSuite is 
            installed and being used
kcms_server     - Kodak Color Management Suite 
cachefsd     - needed only if cachefs is being used with NFS
kerbd       - needed if Kerberos is being used for system security
in.lpd      - needed only if your machine is running a local print spool;
            only stops the machine from being used as a BSD print server,
            does not affect the System V lpsched.
gssd        - ?
dtspcd      - used by the desktop to launch remote applications
xaudio      - X based audio
rpc.cmsd     - maintains the information for the Calendar Manager Service
rpc.ttdbserverd - ToolTalk Database Server Daemon