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Subject: Re: [suse-security] Re: [SLE] Re: [suse-security] X listening on 6000?
From: Robert Casties (robert.castiesphilo.unibe.ch)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 03:18:42 CDT

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Corvin Russell wrote:

> definition in /etc/profile). None of these things worked. Then, to
> see if it would work at all, I booted in runlevel 2 and did 'startx --
> -nolisten -tcp". Now TCP no longer listens, and it doesn't show up on
> scans. But i want this to be done automatically, so if i do graphical
> logins it will still happen. I think it will be necessary to edit the
> init script where the startx command is issued. Does anyone know

Startup in the "graphical login" mode is done by xdm (or kdm or gdm). You
can add options to the X-Server in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers

> X runs fine without TCP listening, therefore perhaps this should be an
> option in rc.config or YaST?

I'm not shure because I haven't tried but I think "plain old" X traffic
from the outside e.g. running an application on another machine with a
display on your machine will not be possible. Using ssh's tunneling might
still work though (slower due to encryption but also more secure).

Cheers
        Robert 

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