From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 20:22:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670F537B405 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from xtremedev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8D270609; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:22:13 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:22:13 -0700 (MST) From: FreeBSD user To: Mark Miller Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting fam to work w/ kde2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <20011103142533.T27621-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <20011103212155.U27717-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG KDE needs fam to work? I've disabled it here, haven't ran into anything that didn't work. What exactly does fam do? On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Mark Miller wrote: > Hi, > > When I first started w/ freebsd (4.2-RELEASE) I followed the mantra of > disabling everything that I didn't explicitly need-- inetd, telnetd, > etc. Among the list was portmap. But now kde uses fam, and fam needs > portmap. Is it possible to run fam without portmap? What are the > security risks involved with keeping portmap running? I've got a fairly > strict /etc/hosts.allow file (only allows ssh connections from certain > IPs, denies all other requests), is that enough? What else can I do to > secure portmap? > > > Thanks, > Mark Miller > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message