On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:34:01AM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:24:50AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Well first off WHY are you running the rpc stuff? (i.e. I can root a redhat > > 6.x box in under 30 seconds with a rpc exploit from a clean install) Turn > > that stuff OFF. > > > Not to start a thread discussing OSes, but ... > > OpenBSD ships with rstatd and ruserd enabled by default and according to > http://www.openbsd.org/ > > "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Which begs the question, especially since the *BSD's release their > sources under BSD style liscenses, why does rpc remain a security problem > in Linux? Is it the kernel? Is it the rpc code?
because that underlined portion is the key here, OpenBSD keeps the rpc stuff turned off by default, thus even if a root hole is found in a rpc service (other then portmap) openbsd does not consider that a `remote hole in the *default install*' they are quick to mention this every time a hole is found in any daemon OpenBSD ships with but leaves off by default. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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