starting a service on use

[Jason Shaw]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> Of course if you are going for simple and you are the only user that
> needs the service, how about:
>
> ssh to box, start service, connect to service.  Seems simple.  If you
> need it often enough that that isn't convinient, then you should probably
> just leave it running.
>
> Or if you want to potential attacks off a little bit, you could also run
the service on an alternate port that only you know.  Sure a port scan would
still notice it, but scripts and the like that are set to go after port 80
and you're running the service on 9000 wouldn't pick it up.

-jason
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