config files obfuscation [was: Configuring NFS under Linux for Firewall control]

Charles R. Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Dec 2 00:25:49 UTC 2004


On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 14:02 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > Perhaps don't leave the *PORT variables empty, but add sensible values?
> 
> Sensible values will be widely variant from one location to the next. A
> "sensible value" is one that gets through *your* firewall. What's there
> should be good enough for even the laziest admin, IMHO, and yes, I
> resemble that remark too. :-)

There are "standard" port numbers for some of these:

MOUNTD_PORT=635
NFSD_PORT=2049




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