Would it be possible to turn off RPC services and have NFS mounts still function normally ?

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Issue

  • Network scans using intrusion detection software shows NFS to have a high score, primarily due to rpcbind.
  • Would it be possible to turn off RPC services and have NFS mounts still function normally ?
  • The following shows the scores :
Ncircle Scan:
Portmapper Available                74
Portmapper RPC enumeration          73
SSL Certificate Information         1
SSL/TLS Certificate Domain Name Mismatch    1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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