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Which of the following processes can the administrator kill without risking impact to the purpose and function

An administrator is hardening systems and wants to disable unnecessary services. One Linux server hosts
files used by a Windows web server on another machine. The Linux server is only used for secure file
transfer, but requires a share for the Windows web server as well. The administrator sees the following
output from a netstat -1p command:

Which of the following processes can the administrator kill without risking impact to the purpose and
function of the Linux or Windows servers? (Select Three)

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A.
1488

B.
1680

C.
2120

D.
2121

E.
2680

F.
8217

5 Comments on “Which of the following processes can the administrator kill without risking impact to the purpose and function

  1. Brian Groover says:

    I don’t understand this one. You don’t need mysql, so you CAN kill 1488.

    You want secure file transfer, so keep vsftp (2120).

    TFTP represents a security risk, as it does not support encryption or authentication, so you definitely should kill 2680, even though it is not included in the answers.

    The ‘badBunny_FTP’ on port 6667 is possibly non-secure FTP and may represent malicious activity; Definitely kill process 2121.

    httpd delivers web pages directly, so keep 1680 (although if the Windows web server is just reading the files as a client and doing the serving, you should kill 1680 and keep the Samba.)

    smbd is the Samba Daemon, used for Windows clients. Kill process 8217 if you don’t kill 1680.

    So you should kill 1488, 2680, 2121, and either 8217 or 1680: A,E,D, and F or B.

    What am I missing?




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  2. Paul says:

    We only want the Linux Server to host files used by Windows web (httpd 1680). We need secure file transfer (2120) and windows sharing (139). SMBD is small message block daemon which allows unix to work with MS especially for sharing.
    Do we need mysql? 1488
    Do we need tftp? 2680
    Do we need badbunnyFTP 2121
    Just kill 1488, 2680, 2121. the only one which might be kinda iffy is mysql but they don’t state anything about databases.




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  3. securityplusmaster says:

    All of you guys are wrong.

    2120 vsftp is needed for secure file transfer like the question asks
    8217 smdb is needed for the windows share

    The questions says choose three, but you can get rid of badbunny(virus), httpd(web server not needed here), tftp (not secure), and mysqld (database is not needed)




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