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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