Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:30:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X11 display problem Message-ID: <20021025083029.GA723@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021025015231.GB59229@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021024203033.T353-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20021024200627.B277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> <20021025015231.GB59229@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:52:32PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> --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.
As in:
--- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers.orig Fri Mar 22 18:30:32 2002
+++ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers Fri Oct 25 09:23:10 2002
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@
# look like:
# XTerminalName:0 foreign
#
-:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
+:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
A very good move indeed, IMHO.
Cheers,
Matthew
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