tags 585122 security thanks As mentioned at http://person.zju.edu.cn/page1/ejabberd-en.htm#htoc67 a remotely accessable epmd is a possible security problem where anyone can connect with a rogue erlang node having full access at your node and its (for example) mnesia data (think ejabberd).
Apart from that the suggested solution only helps on single-user systems; sockets might be the better thing to implement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org