portmap 6.0 (binary only) - DEPRECATED⚓︎

• Package: master/make/pkgs/portmap/
• Steward: -

The portmap service is a dynamic port-assignment daemon for
RPC services such
as
NIS
and
NFS.
It has weak authentication mechanisms and can assign a wide range of
ports for the services it controls.

Among other things, Portmap is required by the NFS package.

Further Links⚓︎

• Portmap Man
  page
• Securing
  Portmap
  (Redhat Security Guide)
• Wikipedia
  article (English)