[ILUG] Hardening Linux

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:28:41AM +0100, Barry O'Donovan mentioned:
> I'm happy with all but portmap and xinetd. I'm not using netfs so is 
> portmap neccessary? Also I'm not running and inetd services so is 
> xinetd neccessary or does it provide protection anyway?

 Nope. Portmap is only needed for RPC services, like NFS.

Kate
 
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