Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-20 Thread Jose Marrero 

You can also edit /etc/default/portmap to bind portmap to listen to
localhost only (127.0.0.1).

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Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery 
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> kevin bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Why is portmap installed by default on a vanilla basic Debian Sarge install?
>> 
>> As far as I can see this is mainly used by by NFS and NIS - so if we're not
>> using either of these then why should it be installed.

> Probably because of fam, which uses it.

One of the many, many reasons to install gamin instead.

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Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-20 Thread kevin bailey 
Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:49:53PM +0100, kevin bailey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Why is portmap installed by default on a vanilla basic Debian Sarge
>> install?
>> 
>> As far as I can see this is mainly used by by NFS and NIS - so if we're
>> not using either of these then why should it be installed.
> 
> Probably because of fam, which uses it.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

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Fam can be used by NFS.  I also think fam is used by some GUI/X file
managers.

As far as I can see it should be ok to remove portmap from an installation
which does not have X installed or uses NFS or NIS.

I'm sure it's been included in to the default setup for a reason - but I
will be removing it on most servers.

Kevin


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Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-20 Thread Jim Popovitch 
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kevin bailey wrote:
> Why is portmap installed by default on a vanilla basic Debian Sarge install?

Because someone thinks that *every* Debian uses NFS.  Granted, it's not
worth going back to change Sarge's installer, however if Sid or Etch
have this same "anomaly"..

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Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Hommey 
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:49:53PM +0100, kevin bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Why is portmap installed by default on a vanilla basic Debian Sarge install?
> 
> As far as I can see this is mainly used by by NFS and NIS - so if we're not
> using either of these then why should it be installed.

Probably because of fam, which uses it.

Mike


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Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-20 Thread kevin bailey 
Why is portmap installed by default on a vanilla basic Debian Sarge install?

As far as I can see this is mainly used by by NFS and NIS - so if we're not
using either of these then why should it be installed.

I'm asking mainly because chkrootkit is reporting what seems like a false
positive due to an open RPC port - and this seems to be a well known false
positive.

Kev


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