Disabling rpcbind/portmapper

Michele Chubirka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <004001c3a2ef$c6e44d00$9b0a0a0a@nijinsky> 
How safe is it to mv/stop the S71rpc startup script in Solaris. I remember
system panics with Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 when attempting to run "S71rpc stop",
so I got in the habit of preventing all the associated programs (rpc.statd,
etc...) from running and then blocking port 111 using wrappers/rpcbind
replacement and ipf. I thought that some Sun programs like Solstice
DiskSuite, Legato, CDE, Tooltalk, etc... used to need rpcbind on the
loopback, is that the case? Can it be safely moved/stopped if I'm not using
NIS, NFS, or any of the others I've disabled?

Michele Chubirka
Unix Systems Engineer
George Washington University
202-994-5791
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