Re: GNOME security.
Brian,
Check /etc/esound/esd.conf. Change auto_spawn=1 to 0.
Also, esd has an option for using Unix sockets, but it says that they're
disabled for "security reasons". Anyone have any idea why?
Regards,
Alex.
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Brian Kimball wrote:
> 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
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