SunRPC / OS X security

[Chris Wilkinson <cw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I heard that OS X came with all services off, and was basically very 
secure. This came off the EIMS list - any comments? Has anyone been 
successfully hacked yet?

-Chris

> > I agree.  Installing Mac OS X on a machine connected to the 
> > Internet means you have to consider Unix Internet security, at the 
> > very least you have to make sure no services have been turned on.
>
> And unfortunately Mac OS X still has SunRPC on by default (port 
> 111), and there is no easy way to turn it off (I think this is 
> because it is used by NetInfo, and there are NeXT people at Apple 
> that think NetInfo is a good thing for some unknown reason, I wish 
> that could be easily turned off as well). SunRPC is the most scanned 
> for thing on the 'net as it easily identifies a lot of unix/linux 
> boxes.
>
> Glenn.

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