Re: Disabling RPC on a Sun U-60

["Chuck Swiger" <chuck () codefab com>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:29:05 -0400 (EDT), Nicholas Tang wrote:
> Our security admin has had repeated problems with disabling RPC on Sun
> Ultra-60's running Solaris 2.6.  After disabling it, he says telnet and
> some other tcp services start hanging.

If the purpose of disabling RPC was to improve the security of this system,  
shouldn't you also turn off telnetd (and rshd/rexecd) in favor of ssh?

In any event, check /etc/nsswitch.conf, and make sure that you are not using  
NIS for any services because NIS lookups will want to connect to the ypserv  
RPC service via a portmapper lookup.

-Chuck

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