From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 28 14:31:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.westmarsh.com (orion.westmarsh.com [193.195.76.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B9237B405 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.westmarsh.com (mailgate.westmarsh.com [193.195.76.50]) by mailgate.westmarsh.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fBSMUoP68707; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:54 GMT (envelope-from pierre.dampure@westmarsh.com) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:50 +0000 From: Pierre Dampure To: Vivek Khera 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: <200112281642.fBSGghj71621@onceler.kciLink.com> Organization: Westmarsh eServices X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:42:43 -0500 (EST), Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "c" == consol 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