From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 14 6:56:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hub.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A01437B43C; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ade by hub.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13ZZUy-000Izx-00; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:56:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:56:20 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: potential security exposure in GNOME/ORBit? Message-ID: <20000914085620.K61662@FreeBSD.org> References: <200009140243.e8E2hDG42233@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:05:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:05:40PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Unless anyone can think of compelling reasons to have network listening > enabled, I'd prefer to have it disabled by default. I'll kill it off later on this week. Since I have an awful lot of GNOME applications running on this box (some from ports, some just waiting to be ported), I should be able to pick up on any other problems fairly quickly. I also have a tentative fix for the locale problem that was highlighted elsewhere (on -stable I believe). > GNOME scares me :-) Me too. Does that scare you any more? :) -aDe [Mr FreeBSD GNOME] -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@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