Re: GNOME security.

[Brian Kimball <bfk@footbag.org>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> There is some orbit-configuration file you should be able to create to
> tell it not to listen to TCP ports. From what I hear that kill all ports
> but one. And unfortunately it seems to be completely undocumented (I
> can't even find what filename to use..).

$ cat ~/.orbitrc 
ORBIIOPUSock=1
ORBIIOPIPv4=0
ORBIIOPIPv6=0
$

I think this came up on a gnome mailing list a while ago.

gnome-session and esd still listen to TCP ports.  This is rather
annoying since I've disabled "sound server startup" in gnome's control
center, so esd shouldn't even be running.  Grrr.

-- 
Brian Kimball