According to Ray Dermody:
> Hi All,
> Doing a routine port scan of our servers I noticed that the SUNRPC
> port is open on one of our RH7.1 machines. I need to block this port
> as we don't need it.
> I have looked through the inetd.conf and iptables files but don't
> know exactly what to do here. Is there any easy way that I can shut
> down this service?.
> Thanks,
> R.
It's the portmap service:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap stop (or service portmap stop if you're lazy)
chkconfig portmap off
You may prefer to firewall it off if you need any of its services. Or use
tcpwrappers or something.
Waider.
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