RH Taroon Beta Open Ports
rhldevel at assursys.co.uk
rhldevel at assursys.co.uk
Mon Aug 25 13:33:58 UTC 2003
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
> > rpc.statd and portmap aren't the exclusive domain of NIS. Both are
> > enabled by default and used by NFS as client or server. I think they
> > could be disabled by default instead of being enabled by default.
>
> sgi_fam is an RPC service and needs portmap and is used, i think, by
> some of the GUI stuff (eg nautilus). portmap needs to be locally
> accessible.
>
> i do think portmap and rpc.statd should be firewalled off by default
> though.
I'm pretty sure they are. What I object to is having them listen on
*non-loopback* interfaces needlessly.
> redhat-config-nfs or similar could enable portmap access if
> nfs mounts are configured.
Quite.
Best Regards,
Alex.
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