From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 9:12:41 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 09:12:39 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.125.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA49837B404 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.3s) with SMTP id MAA28816 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:12:37 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portmap Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:16:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010312142805.00440@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I saw this in the security how-to at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jkb/howto.html "By default FreeBSD comes with portmapper enabled. If you don't have a need for it: disable it. You will not have a need for portmap daemon if you are not using any programs which require RPC." And I saw other people ask in the archives if it is necessary and people said to read portmap(8) and that would tell you if it is necessary. It doesn't. I don't think I need any of the things mentioned there or in /etc/rpc, but how would I know? I install lots of ports to learn about things. Is there anything unexpected that could break if I put portmap_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf ? By unexpected I mean anything not in portmap or /etc/rpc or something that uses those that is not obvious. My guess would be no, but then why is portmap enabled by default? I don't want to start a flamewar here, but I'm genuinely confused. Any info would be appreciated. Thank you, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message