From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 15:47:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D2937B403; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f71Mj8u14073; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:43:46 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Cc: Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Nate Williams , Robert Watson Subject: Re: Disabling portmapper (was Re: Patch to modify default inetd. Message-ID: <20010801154346.A14054@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010801144335.C82198@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:39:00PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:39:00PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > >> It already is disabled in -current since 2000-07-28 22:45:36 > >> portmap_enable="NO" # Run the portmapper service (YES/NO). > > > > But does sysinstall enable it by default? > > For liberal and moderate security, yes. Thus by default it does. It's only > left off for high and fascist security settings. Ah. An for those of us that cvsup, it was equivalant to "fascist security" when the default was changed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message