topic Re: autofs and RPC Services in Operating System - Linux

autofs and RPC Services

MikeL_4 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:49:27 GMT

We are running Red Hat 5 on a couple of servers we just installed. We are not using these servers for NFS server or client so our security group wants us to turn off disable RPC on the servers...

The question is we do use autofs for our home directories, will disableing RPC have any effect with autofs ??

Re: autofs and RPC Services

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:56 GMT

>>> We are not using these servers for NFS server or client

>>> we do use autofs for our home directories

Normally, if you use autofs for your home directories, then you are using NFS services, and disabling portmap will cause problems.

Re: autofs and RPC Services

smatador — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:25:05 GMT

Hi,
Autofs depend on automountd.
And automountd is an RPC server that answers file system mount and unmount requests from the autofs filesystem. It uses local files or name service maps to locate filesystems to be mounted. These maps are described with the automount command
If you do a rpcinfo you could see that automountd have a ticotxx

Re: autofs and RPC Services

MikeL_4 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:27:17 GMT

Thanks