The portmap package is a more secure replacement for the original SUN portmap package. Portmap is used to forward RPC requests to RPC daemons such as NFS and NIS.
Download (HTTP): http://files.ichilton.co.uk/nfs/portmap_5.orig.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/adamantix/dists/adamantix-1.0.1/main/source/net/portmap_5.orig.tar.gz
Download size: 20 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 250 KB
Estimated build time: 0.03 SBU
Required patch (HTTP): http://files.ichilton.co.uk/nfs/portmap_5-1.diff.gz
Required patch (HTTP): http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches/portmap_5-errno.patch
Install portmap with the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../portmap_5-1.diff && patch -Np1 -i ../portmap_5-errno.patch && mkdir /usr/share/doc/portmap && make && make install |
patch -Np1 -i ../portmap_5-1.diff: This patch provides added security for the portmap package, including only allowing portmap table changes from the local host.
mkdir /usr/share/doc/portmap: This directory must be created before installation.
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap << "EOF" #!/bin/sh # Begin /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions case "$1" in start) echo "Starting RPC Portmap" loadproc /sbin/portmap ;; stop) echo "Stopping Portmap" killproc /sbin/portmap ;; restart) $0 stop /bin/sleep 1 $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac # End /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap EOF chmod 754 /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap && cd /etc/rc.d/init.d && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc0.d/K49portmap && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc1.d/K49portmap && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc2.d/K49portmap && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc3.d/S22portmap && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc4.d/S22portmap && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc5.d/S22portmap && ln -sf ../init.d/portmap ../rc6.d/K49portmap |