Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@×××××××××××.FI>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:17:20
Message-Id: 20010912121649.A7430@cs.helsinki.fi
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo by Ben Lutgens
1 On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:00:11PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:
2 > Hi all, by default in gentoo (as well as a few other distros as well) X is
3 > configured to listen on port 6000/tcp for remote X requests, this is a
4 > known security hazard.
5 >
6 > If you're using xdm do the following:
7 > edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to say
8 >
9 > local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
10 >
11 > I also recommend not using xfs since X cant handle fonts without it.
12 >
13 Is there anyway to do this if one is not using xdm?
14 A solution working for xinit is good, but isn't there
15 any way of making this default short of compiling X
16 from scratch?
17
18 - Einar Karttunen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] how to close port 6000 in gentoo Chris Houser <chouser@g.o>