From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 5 11:47:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from faith.cs.utah.edu (faith.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB6637B71B for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danderse@cs.utah.edu) Received: (from danderse@localhost) by faith.cs.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA09463; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:46:28 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200103051946.MAA09463@faith.cs.utah.edu> Subject: Re: sshd listening on port 6010 To: dsyphers@hep.uchicago.edu (David Syphers) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:46:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "David Syphers" at Mar 05, 2001 01:44:22 PM From: "David G. Andersen" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It is correct, because it's still trying to do X11 forwarding in case you run any X apps on that box. If you don't like it, then disable X11 forwarding in your ssh config file, the system ssh config file, or on a per connection basis using the command line flags. -Dave Lo and behold, David Syphers once said: > > Does anyone know why sshd listens on port 6010 when someone is ssh'd into > a box? I generally use mindterm to remotely log in from a windows machine > to my FreeBSD machine, but when using a UNIX machine to ssh in directly I > noticed that netstat said something was listening on port 6010 and > sockstat said that something was sshd. This doesn't happen when mindterm > is used. The only reference I could find to port 6010 in the mailing > archives were a few people who guessed that it had to do with X Windows, > but that's not correct because X isn't even installed on this FreeBSD box. > > -David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message