Re: NFS, password transparency, and security

[Rob VanFleet <rvf@linux.wku.edu>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:21:13AM +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:02:34PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:23:28AM -0700, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> > > 
> > > You run those service locally on each machine only.  You don't make them
> > > available to other hosts.
> > 
> > Sorry if I'm being completely dense here, but aren't the ports still
> > open, even if they are only serving localhost?
> 
> The point is that it's made accessible only from localhost. Whether this is
> by using a firewall to block connections from anyone else, using tcpwrappers
> or that it only binds to the lo interface.

This last case (binding to lo): how would I go about doing that?

Thanks,
Rob


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