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From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo
Date: Tue Sep 11 21:02:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010911220011.A9840@llama.dolly-llama.org> (raw)

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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

I also recommend not using xfs since X cant handle fonts without it. 

-- 
Ben Lutgens		
Sistina Software Inc.	

What's the difference between root and God ?
God doesn't think that he is root. 

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-09-12  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-11 21:02 Ben Lutgens [this message]
2001-09-12  3:18 ` [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo Einar Karttunen
2001-09-12  7:14   ` Chris Houser
2001-09-12  7:38 ` Mikael Hallendal

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