On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:41:30PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
> I'm especially interested in shutting down sunrpc - I hear nothing but bad
> things about RPC, at least as far as security goes. We're not using NFS,
> nor NIS, or anything else that needs it (at least, not that I know of. Is
> it used for anything else?)
Best bet is to just shut it down and see if anything breaks. You can always
turn it back on later. But as far as I know, no, you don't need the portmapper
for anything other than NFS (somebody correct me?). So don't even run the
daemon in your standard runlevel.
> Also, what' "auth" exactly, and why does linuxconf run as a server? Does it
> have to?
I believe that "auth" allows your machine to authenticate on behalf of other
systems. You probably don't need it, you can comment it out of inetd.conf.
linuxconf as a server is a BAD idea, shut it off off off off off. Also in
inetd.conf. I do not know how exactly, but I've had Red Hat boxes where
the linuxconf line was re-added after being repeatedly commented out of
inetd.conf; hasn't happened to me lately but you might want to keep an eye
out just in case.
The reason it installs itself that way is so that you can connect from a
linuxconf on some other system and configure your machine remotely. But that
(IMHO) is what ssh is for, and linuxconf will work just fine with its
remote functionality turned off.
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