From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 13 22: 5:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE5B37B43C; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA52292; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:05:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: security@freebsd.org, ade@freebsd.org Subject: Re: potential security exposure in GNOME/ORBit? In-Reply-To: <200009140243.e8E2hDG42233@whizzo.transsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > I'd suggest that minimally there be a warning, or perhaps that the > orbitrc file be installed to turn off this "feature" when the > devel/ORBit port is installed. Unless anyone can think of compelling reasons to have network listening enabled, I'd prefer to have it disabled by default. GNOME scares me :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message