portmapper service

Linux and Unix-Like SuSE
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Hello,
I've been asked to look this up and I'm having issue finding it. We are currently harding our servers and I'm new to SUSE 11. The security people at work want me to disable the portmapper service.
How do you disable the portmapper service?

Thanks

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---------- Post updated at 01:59 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:58 PM ----------

Ok, I got a update.

It seems that portmapper service is called rpcbind.
This is how I disabled the service.

service nfs stop
chkconfig nfs off
service rpcbind stop
chkconfig off

This seems to do it. If i'm wong let me know.

Thanks

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You left off the name of the service in your last chkconfig.

3

You have also disabled nfs service.

Since version 4 nfs does not require rpcbind
It got a bit safer.

Regards
Peasant.

4

I had to include shutting off nfs, because when I just tried to turn off rpcbind without turning nfs 1st, it would give me a warring.
When I then checked to see if rpcbind was still running after turning it off i would see it still running. So I turn off nfs 1st then turned off rpcbind and it stuck.

Thanks for your imput.