Portmap

Download Source:	http://neil.brown.name/portmap/portmap-6.0.tgz

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Introduction to Portmap

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.

Project Homepage: http://neil.brown.name/portmap/

Dependencies

Required

• TCP Wrappers

Creating the bin User

Portmap runs as a daemon with a uid of 1 which is not configurable.

useradd -u 1 -g 1 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false bin

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.

64Bit

Compile the package:

make CC="gcc ${BUILD64}"

Install the package

make install

Configuring

Bootscript

Install the init script provided by the bootscripts package:

make install-portmap