[Lilux-help] Help with nmap (and ssh)

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:19:31PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 20:39, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Serge Marelli wrote:
>>> OK, so I'm paranoid...

>>> Interesting ports on $MYHOST ($MYIPADDRESS):
>>> Port       State       Service
>>> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc

>>> I don't see what I might be doing with Sun's RPC and wish to
>>> disable this (any hint welcome).

>> RPC -> portmap Since my Gentoo runs fine without this service, I
>> guess you won't need it, unless you need NFS or somesuch.

> one service that use rpc is fam, to monitor directory. kde can take
> advantage of this, but it work fine without it.

Using FAM is mainly a performance optimisation, AFAIK.

On a related note, Debian is on the verge of changing the default
behaviour of portmap to listening only on localhost, no remote IP. At
last.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0401/msg01512.html

-- 
Lionel
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