RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

[Jim Wildman]

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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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim at rossberry.com
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