hi ya doug donno if the more secure rpc/portmap will solve your problem or not
http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/services.gwif.html - see the bottom of the page have fun alvin On 3 Sep 2001, Doug Alcorn wrote: > I'm interested in doing CODA file system over the internet. It has > all the features of a networked filesystem that I'm interested in. > The only problem seems to be that it requires the use of the > portmapper. From my NFS day, I seem to remember that portmapper is > insecure. Is this true? Is CODA itself secure? It seems to use > kerberos for authentication. Is there some way for it to use ssh port > forwarding instead?