RH Taroon Beta Open Ports
Jim Wildman
jim at rossberry.com
Mon Aug 25 17:29:38 UTC 2003
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 rhldevel at assursys.co.uk wrote:
> But to a lot of naïve users, firewalls are deeply technical things, that
> they worry will interfere with normal usage. As a result, I believe a number
> of such users will install with the firewall disabled, or stop it when
> attempting to get things working - perhaps never to (re-)enable it. Having
> things like X11, portmapper and rpc.statd listening on an external interface
> is asking for trouble, IMHO.
>
> > Bill
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
>
I agree with Alex. If nfs is being used, it is because there is a
knowledgeable person around to set it up. (Is there a client included
by default with MS systems?). Better to have it off and close one
more potential hole.
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