Re: Many ports open by default
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:25:34AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> If there's nothing that depends on portmap, then default to not
> installing portmap.
speaking of portmap, debian's portmap is not an insecure thing to run by
default because it is compiled with tcp-wrappers support and rejects all
non-localhost connections that aren't explicitly allowed (by ip address)
in /etc/hosts.allow
> Having daemons shut off by default is not the way to go, however.
yep.
craig
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