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Subject: Re: Stopping X binding to network interface
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Avleen Vig wrote:

>I have multiple network interfaces in my machine, and don't want X to                                                                            
>listen on the internet facing NIC.                                                                                                               
>Is there a way to control this? I can't find any details apart from                                                                              
>using ACLs or other layer of security.                                                                                                           
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>I just don't want it to bind to that interface :-)
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The default for X is not to listen to any tcp traffic.

 xinit /home/flame/.xinitrc -- -nolisten tcp

-Ryan