Security

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 13:13 -0600, Jonathan Carpenter wrote:
> I have noticed 3 process that I have running by default with fedora 4
> core,
> rpcgssd
> rpcidmapd
> rpcsvcgssd
> 
>    After researching the port numbers and the process name it looks as
> if they have something to do with NFS? is this correct? I have ran a
> server with an nfs mount before but did not notice all 3 of these
> ports open.
> 

These process belong to the RPC backbone, which is used by NFS (and
NFSv4).

Gilboa