portmap portmap is a part of the ONCRPC collection of software for implementing remote procedure calls between computer programs.
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portmap is a part of the ONCRPC collection of software for implementing remote procedure calls between computer programs. portmap is a part of the ONCRPC collection of software for implementing remote procedure calls between computer programs. This project is use widely by NFS and NIS, and assorted other systems.Some make variable can be used to control compilation. NO_TCP_WRAPPER= if non-empty, doen't use tcp_wrappers USE_DNS= if set, tcp_wrappers can check peers based on hostname as well as IP address. This should only be used if you are certain that gethostbyname will never trigger a called to portmap (as it might if 'nis' is used for hostnames). RPCUSER= is set, portmap will use getpwnam to find the user for that user, and will setuid to that user before listening for incoming messages DAEMON_UID= Can be set to a number to override the default UID to setuid to. Default is '1'. DAEMON_GID= As above, but for setgid.What's New in This Release:· This first new release in 10 years combines assorted patches from different Linux distributions.· Security was improved so that privileged services can register non-privileged ports that cannot then be unregistered by other users.

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