Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:43:46 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, stable@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Disabling portmapper (was Re: Patch to modify default inetd. Message-ID: <20010801154346.A14054@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010801143900.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:39:00PM -0700 References: <20010801144335.C82198@xor.obsecurity.org> <XFMail.010801143900.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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