Disabling unused services
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All standard OpenBSD services are started (configured) in /etc/rc.conf, fire up vi so we can disable the following services

·inetd  
·sendmail  

as we won't be needing them. If you intend to only connect to the box locally (through a keyboard or serial console) then I recommend disabling the
sshd also. The lines should look like this after our little modification:

sendmail_flags=NO
inetd=NO

and possibly

sshd_flags=NO

These changes will be in effect after a reboot. Remember, to activate a previously disabled service simply change the NO to "" unless you want to pass additional flags to the application.