Re: how to keep portmap from running?

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

Manegold <manegold@uni-trier.de> writes:
> Gary Hennigan wrote:
> > In the past there have been a few security incidents with things
> > associated with portmap. I definately don't run it on my 24/7 system
> > that's connected to the internet. If you do use it make sure you use
> > tcp wrappers to secure it.
> 
> Hi!
> How is that done? (or where can I find info regarding this)

Look in /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. Those are the files for
control of tcpwrapped programs, like portmap. The man page to read
would be "hosts_access" and you can also read about securing
portmapper via this mechanism in

/usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz

Gary