source: basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml@ 8a246c7

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  %general-entities;

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  <!ENTITY portmap-download-http "http://neil.brown.name/portmap/portmap-&portmap-version;.tgz">
  <!ENTITY portmap-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY portmap-md5sum        "ac108ab68bf0f34477f8317791aaf1ff">
  <!ENTITY portmap-size          "21 KB">
  <!ENTITY portmap-buildsize     "268 KB">
  <!ENTITY portmap-time          "0.01 SBU">
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<sect1 id="portmap" xreflabel="portmap-&portmap-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="portmap.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Portmap-&portmap-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="portmap">
    <primary sortas="a-Portmap">Portmap</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Portmap</title>

    <para>The <application>portmap</application> package is a more secure
    replacement for the original SUN <application>portmap</application> package.
    <application>Portmap</application> is used to forward RPC requests to RPC
    daemons such as NFS and NIS.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&portmap-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&portmap-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &portmap-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &portmap-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &portmap-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &portmap-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Portmap Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/portmap"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Portmap</title>

    <para>Portmap runs as a daemon with a uid of 1.  This uid is only
    configurable at compile time and is used as default. To set up a
    user to match this uid, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput>useradd -u 1 -g 1 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false bin</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>portmap</application> with the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you want the portmap daemon to use a uid/gid other than the
    defaults, pass DAEMON_UID=x and DAEMON_GID=y as shown below:</para>
    <para><command>make DAEMON_UID=x DAEMON_GID=y</command></para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>The above installation places executable <command>portmap</command>
      in <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. You may choose to move the
      file to <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>. If you do,
      remember to modify the bootscript also.</para>
    </note>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Portmap</title>

    <sect3  id="portmap-init">
      <title>Boot Script</title>

      <para>Install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap</filename> init script
      included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>

      <indexterm zone="portmap portmap-init">
        <primary sortas="f-portmap">portmap</primary>
      </indexterm>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-portmap</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>pmap_dump, pmap_set, and portmap</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pmap_dump">
         <!-- Don't remove the extra space, it prevent a FOP warning. -->
        <term><command>pmap_dump</command> </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>saves the port mapping table to an ASCII file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="portmap pmap_dump">
            <primary sortas="b-pmap_dump">pmap_dump</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pmap_set">
        <term><command>pmap_set</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>restores the port mapping table from an ASCII file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="portmap pmap_set">
            <primary sortas="b-pmap_set">pmap_set</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="portmap-prog">
        <term><command>portmap</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an RPC port mapper.</para>
          <indexterm zone="portmap portmap-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-portmap">portmap</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>