From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 18:52:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FA837B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE51E43E77 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3767166C7B; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:52:32 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: X11 display problem Message-ID: <20021025015231.GB59229@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021024203033.T353-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20021024200627.B277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021024200627.B277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:10:19PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Chuck Robey wrote: >=20 > > The fix that I've found so far is either to start X with xdm (which > > doesn't have that default off), to start startx with the -listen_tcp > > option, or to edit the startx script to remove the -nolisten_tcp arg to > > the Xserver invocation. >=20 > Another option is for FreeBSD to commit a patch to the XFree86 port > which restores POLA to startx. In the meantime instead of editing the > script in your local install you might want to consider adding a shell > alias which aliases startx to "/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -listen_tcp". --nolisten-tcp was added deliberately for security reasons: see the commit logs (it's also documented clearly at the top of the startx manpage). It sounds like an oversight that xdm doesn't do this; I've asked the XFree86 maintainer to investigate and make the corresponding change if necessary. Kris --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9uKPfWry0BWjoQKURAjgZAJsG/LGpCI/f24kGw7vh8KY9VFrvswCfU+hO qfk+69MWOFCe4Q2rFAv2js0= =88yb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message