RE: Selective TCP listening with X
> From: Greg J. [mailto:gkj@sdf.lonestar.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:29 PM
>
> I'm interested in configuring X to listen for TCP connections
> on localhost but
> no other interfaces so that I can use xmove via SSH without
> opening X up to
> remote TCP-based attacks. Is there any X configuration option
> to do so?
I just lost my reply, so here's a short replay...
I think the default in Debian is to NOT listen for TCP connections. It's
not in the X(7) man page, but `grep -r listen /etc/X11` shows a couple of
locations where X is called with the -nolisten flag. I believe this causes
X to ONLY listen on local Unix sockets.
I found it. -nolisten is mentioned in the Xserver(1) man page.
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