Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:46:28 -0700 (MST) From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@pobox.com> To: dsyphers@hep.uchicago.edu (David Syphers) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd listening on port 6010 Message-ID: <200103051946.MAA09463@faith.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.33.0103051338440.383702-100000@hep.uchicago.edu> from "David Syphers" at Mar 05, 2001 01:44:22 PM
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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
>
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