Portmap Question ...

Jim Bonnet jimbo
Mon May 17 11:41:30 PDT 2004


Ben Duncan wrote:
> Is it necessary to run portmap on a machine if all you only have 
> telnet/ssh, ftp services on the machine ?
> 
> 
> Thanks ..
> 

No, if those are the only services you are running. You need it for NFS 
and other applications which make RPC calls, which telnet, ftp, and ssh 
don't.

--jim




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