All, I was doing a routine nmap of my network today, and noticed when I nmap'd a box running KDE that the following showed up: Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on (removed) (XX.XX.XXX.XX): (The 1552 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh 1024/tcp open kdm I'm not running KDM, but I do have the KDE desktop up. When nmap'ing the same box when KDE is not running, I get: Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on (removed) (XX.XX.XXX.XX): (The 1553 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh And with a simple "xinit", I get: Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on (removed) (XX.XX.XXX.XX): (The 1552 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh 6000/tcp open X11 Now, is there any security implications of having this port open? (I am nmap'ing this box's external Internet interface as it is my ipmasq box.) If so, what files do I have to edit to get rid of it? I don't need X listening on this interface. Thanks! -- ------------------------------------------ Edward Guldemond GPG Key: 0x4E505B0F Key fingerprint: 4CAC 6740 C1CD 3CE4 6CA0 34E9 B3B7 18EC 4E50 5B0F
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