RE: Disabling rpcbind/portmapper

"Chuck McIntyre" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <7A6EDCB10831DD49A58DF662A3B37D2D1A9CBE@terminator.echo.quinstreet.net>
> 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",

You can safely remove this in Solaris 8 and 9, I do it as part of my build. You should probably also remove the correponding K scripts in the various runlevels to avoid a delay at shutdown or reboot.


> 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?

Yes, also, if you need to run NFS you can use a slightly modified version of the rpc startup scrpit to only start a few of the services instead.

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Chuck McIntyre 
UNIX Systems Administrator
Quinstreet, Inc. (http://www.quinstreet.com)
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