From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 14 4:50:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619A337B423; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 04:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.causticlabs.com (unknown [207.192.76.213]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4B59B05; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:50:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@earth.causticlabs.com To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , security@freebsd.org, ade@freebsd.org Subject: Re: potential security exposure in GNOME/ORBit? In-Reply-To: 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, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 :-) > I agree...it gives me the willies too :) ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message