From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 9:26:29 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 09:26:26 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (unknown [202.169.133.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A029237B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from suresh@localhost) by mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/mjollnir-1.0) id f03HLMp19638 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:51:22 +0530 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:51:22 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmap Message-ID: <20010103225122.A19572@oyeindia.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01010312142805.00440@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01010312142805.00440@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>; from timcm@umich.edu on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:16:39PM -0500 Organization: Hopelessly Disorganized X-Operating-System: Linux mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com 2.2.18 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen rearranged electrons thusly: > 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 ? No.. nothing will break. If you are not running a portmap / sunrpc service, dont use it :) from man portmap > Portmap is a server that converts RPC program numbers into DARPA protocol > port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. This advice is much more useful if you are running a production machine / anything on a static (or even a long lease dhcp) IP, unprotected by a firewall. Leaving several open ports open makes it much easier for some 31337 h4x0r d00d to break into your machine. You can do a custom install and choose not to install portmap / run it at startup ... -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet efn org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message