Re: RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

[Chris Ricker <kaboom gatech edu>]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 rhldevel assursys co uk wrote:

> There's always a trade-off between security and ease-of-use. What proportion
> of the installed base of Linux clients use RPC-based protocols? Not many I'd
> wager, suggesting that the trade-off can be biased towards security, with
> little-to-no impact on the majority of users.

Most Linux client systems, in my experience, are NFS clients and therefore 
need portmap, statd, and lockd out-of-the-box.

later,
chris