According to Alvin Oga: > for more secure rpc... secure portmapper etc.. ( bottom of link ) > http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/services.gwif.html
That's a portmapper with tcpd/libwrap support. In other words, the portmapper that Debian uses already. It doesn't have anything to do with "secure RPC" as that is something completely different. > for allowng users to log into any pc and get work done.. > - requires a home server that is gonna stay up most of the time > - > - you'd need to either pass the passwd/shadow files around > ( my preference to pass files around ) or use nis ( not mypreference ) Yes, aka NFS and NIS. > if you are worried about security.... > - disable dhcp and use all ip# defined by the "mask" That doesn't make much sense. Mike. -- Move sig.
