Re: RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

[Paul Jakma <paul dishone st>]

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. redhat-config-nfs or similar could enable portmap access if 
nfs mounts are configured.

regards,
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