Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:31:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSHD from Inetd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970626172951.23680A-100000@ns2.harborcom.net> In-Reply-To: <4731.867356839@verdi.nethelp.no>
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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > I've been wishing for a few more knobs for just such situations - for > instance a knob to control whether portmap is started or not. I normally > turn off portmap - because I have no use for it, and because portmap has > traditionally had security holes. (I'm confident that the FreeBSD portmap > is better than the old SunOS 4.1.x portmap in this regard, but it could > still have security holes.) Recent rc.conf's have this: portmap_enable="YES" # Run the portmapper service (or NO). portmap_flags="" # Flags to portmap (if enabled). pbd -- You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
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