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Re: portmap and libwrap..



moved to MISC@

Best practices suggest using ipf or pf to wrap portmap.
NIS however, is your biggest hole.  Try alternatives (kerberos, etc).

Quoting shocker@ionet.net (shocker@ionet.net):
> First, I'd like to apologize - I am not subscribing to the list so I would 
> appreciate any replies to be forwarded right to my mail account...
> 
> Now then... I'm running a small lab of FreeBSD machines and I'm using an 
> OpenBSD machine as the server for them.. he's called Macbeth. Macbeth has a 
> problem - being on a university network I've got lots of hax0r3z crap to 
> contend with and I'm trying to seal up my holes - like RPC. I _need_ RPC to 
> service the slave machines with NIS and NFS. In order to keep some kind of