RE: Servers with X.
I observed that u r right about the listening matter, but the man page for x or xinit states that the default setting is nolisten. As I recall that is the default behavior in the case that no configuration file is found!
Petrisor Eddy Marian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Griswold [mailto:griswld@cio.sc.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:29 PM
> To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org; marian.petrisor@siemens.com
> Subject: RE: Servers with X.
>
> You are correct. I was confused. Red Hat ships with the X server
> listening on port 6000. Thanks for the correction, I can now stop
> setting this on Debian servers.
>
> >>> Petrisor Marian <marian.petrisor@siemens.com> 08/19/03 07:45AM >>>
> This is the default setting for X (no listen)
>
> Petrisor Eddy Marian
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Griswold [mailto:griswld@cio.sc.gov]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:43 PM
> > To: jwaugh@flowcom.com.au; Thomas.Lamy@netwake.de; rudi@oasis.net.au
>
> > Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: RE: Servers with X.
> >
> > You can use the "-nolisten tcp" in /usr/X11R6/bin/startx in
> > defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp" this should keep X from listening
> on
> > port 6000.
> >
> > >>> Thomas Lamy <Thomas.Lamy@netwake.de> 08/19/03 01:41AM >>>
> > Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:28, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> > > > Is it bad practise to use X on your Debian ISP/Hosting machines
> ?
> > > > Here I have 4 boxes all without X. I've always been of the
> > > impression
> > > > X on servers was not good.
> > >
> > > It's not a terrible thing to do, unless you forget to
> > > correctly firewall
> > > your machines. :-)
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > You don't need to install an X server on the local machine to
> > > use it. If
> > > you install the tcl app, and ssh to the box using X
> > > forwarding (-X), you
> > > can display the program on your own local X server.
> > >
> > > [ desktop ] --> [ firewall ] --> [ db-server ]
> > > X server ssh ssh no X server
> > >
> > > Fully encrypted, secure access to X software on your
> > > db-server, without
> > > running (or even having) a full X server on the machine. :-)
> > >
> > But you need at least xbase-clients (and it's dependants) on your
> > client
> > machine for X authentication and stuff.
> >
> > Beside this, I was under the impression that the default X config is
> > _not_
> > to listen on public interfaces or TCP sockets (not sure on this
> one).
> > At
> > least KDE's desktop is by default configured this way.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
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