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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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