Re: new portmap packages, testers wanted

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:

>As portmap is a dependency of the fam package, it is getting installed
>on a wide range of desktop boxes. However, it is not necessary to have
>it listen to the whole network, introducing a potential security
>weakness for desktop users.
>
>An updated package is available at
>http://people.debian.org/~joss/packages/
>along with updated versions of packages which *do* require portmap to
>listen to remote interfaces, such as NIS or NFS. This version will not
>answer to requests from remote hosts unless told so in
>/etc/default/portmap or by one of these packages.
>
>If there are no objections, I'd like to upload all of that in a few
>days.

Thanks for doing this.  As a desktop user who doesn't need portmap to listen 
remotely to anything, I appreciate it.

And BTW the new package seems to work fine for local fam functionality.  :-)