As portmap is a dependency of the fam package, it is getting installed on a wide range of desktop boxes. However, it is not necessary to have it listen to the whole network, introducing a potential security weakness for desktop users.
An updated package is available at http://people.debian.org/~joss/packages/ along with updated versions of packages which *do* require portmap to listen to remote interfaces, such as NIS or NFS. This version will not answer to requests from remote hosts unless told so in /etc/default/portmap or by one of these packages. If there are no objections, I'd like to upload all of that in a few days. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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