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Disable Unused Services (CUPS for instance)?
Is there any way to turn off unused daemons in the ReadyNAS Duo? My IT security department has flagged my NAS as having a vulnerability in CUPS. That's fine, I don't use it as a print server, so I w...
I will let you know what vuln they're seeing when I hear back from them.
I did a quick fancy find looking for cups calls: find /etc/init.d -type f | xargs grep -i cup
and the only references are in cupsys and rc3 (and powerdown which just deletes entries in the spool)
so it looks like if I just comment out the startup line in rc3 that would probably keep cups from being loaded on startup.
I assume the rc3 is updated when the firmware is (or is it not?) so I would just have to redo that comment every time I upgrade the firmware but that isn't any real hardship.
I did a quick fancy find looking for cups calls: find /etc/init.d -type f | xargs grep -i cup
and the only references are in cupsys and rc3 (and powerdown which just deletes entries in the spool)
so it looks like if I just comment out the startup line in rc3 that would probably keep cups from being loaded on startup.
I assume the rc3 is updated when the firmware is (or is it not?) so I would just have to redo that comment every time I upgrade the firmware but that isn't any real hardship.
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