From: Mikael Hallendal <micke@codefactory.se>
To: "Gentoo Dev." <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo
Date: Wed Sep 12 07:38:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000301727.639.8.camel@fry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010911220011.A9840@llama.dolly-llama.org>
ons 2001-09-12 klockan 05.00 skrev Ben Lutgens:
> Hi all, by default in gentoo (as well as a few other distros as well) X is
> configured to listen on port 6000/tcp for remote X requests, this is a
> known security hazard.
>
> If you're using xdm do the following:
> edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to say
>
> local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
Added this as default option in gdm (2.2.3.2-r1).
Regards,
Mikael Hallendal
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-11 21:02 [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo Ben Lutgens
2001-09-12 3:18 ` Einar Karttunen
2001-09-12 7:14 ` Chris Houser
2001-09-12 7:38 ` Mikael Hallendal [this message]
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