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Old 21st December 2009
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You -need- turn nothing off. The basic services included in the install are "secure by default." You will got no -extra security- from disabling any running services, and, you may even cause yourself harm. Example: disabling the built-in sendmail server because you think that will make your system more secure, will actually disable daily security testing results, see the security(8) man page. The default configuration of the sendmail server only accepts loopback connections.

OpenBSD is not Linux, Windows, Unix, or, even any other BSD.

Should you ever enable SSH, you will likely want to disable root access and perhaps password authentication as well.
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