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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:50 +0000
From:      Pierre Dampure <pierre.dampure@westmarsh.com>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcp port 6000
Message-ID:  <20011228223050.767a84e6.pierre.dampure@westmarsh.com>
In-Reply-To: <200112281642.fBSGghj71621@onceler.kciLink.com>
References:  <a0gb0a$ro7$1@news1.xs4all.nl> <200112281642.fBSGghj71621@onceler.kciLink.com>

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:42:43 -0500 (EST), Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "c" == consol  <consol@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> c> hi.....
> c> I seem to have an open port according to nmap and nessus.... The port is
> c> 6000 and it does X11 forwarding.....
> 
> 6000 is the port your X server listens to.  If you don't want to have
> this port open, then don't run X on your machine, or run a firewall to
> prevent access to it.
> 

Hammer approach. Just add -nolisten tcp to the start line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.

I still don't understand why, in this day and age, we haven't made this the default. My two pence.

//PYD

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