Feature Request "secure by default"

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 10 15:18:23 UTC 2007


Alexander Boström wrote:

> True about sendmail, though, from lsof on a rather minimal F7 install:
> 
> rpcbind 1487  rpc    6u  IPv6   4892       UDP *:sunrpc 
> rpcbind 1487  rpc    8u  IPv6   4897       TCP *:sunrpc (LISTEN)
> rpc.statd 1512 root    7u  IPv4   4981       TCP *:846 (LISTEN)
> 
> Seems like it's accepting unsolicited data from the network. I always
> disable those services when I do new installs.

The default selection of packages doesn't include rpcbind in F7 afaik. I 
installed from the live image which certainly didn't include this.

Rahul




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