RE: Start of portmap
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:24:36PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > Well, it has a priority of standard, which looks for me like it will be
> > installed on default installations, which includes a lot of installation
> > where it's not needed. And if then get's standard, this creates a
> > security hole which is absolutely not needed.
>
> Huh? What security hole would this be exactly? This seems like
> blatant FUD.
Let's see... start of unnecessary daemon == unnecessary security risk.
I, for one, don't particularly care for having port 111 open if I'm not
*using* something that *needs* it. Just like daytime, discard, time, which I
always disable immediately whenever I reinstall debian. Why are those
services enabled by default, anyway?
-m
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