Operating Systems/Linux/Ubuntu/Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/Services
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What are Services?
Services are essentially background programs that are ran in order to make sure the computer functions properly; they are often used to handle stuff like printing and bluetooth. While they are greatly useful they are another attack vector same as anything else, and as such they should be disabled when not required just as you would any other program.
How to Interact with Services
See what is running, enabling, and disabling any service.
GUI
- You're out of luck, not visual based service manager in 16.04
CLI
- Open the terminal, run
sudo bash - Run
service --status-allto view a full list of installed services - Start a service with
service <name of service> start - Stop a service with
service <name of service> stop - Install services with
apt-get install <name of service> - Remove services with
apt-get remove <name of service>(you may have to confirm it)