Re: X Security Issues?

[Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#list.debian-security@t-online.de>]

Edward Guldemond <thedebategod@yifan.net> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:53:27AM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> 
>> Look at "man xinit" and "man Xserver". There you will find an option
>> "-nolisten".
>
> In /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, I have the following line:
> exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
>
> So why is X still listening on TCP?

Well, it seems I should heed my own advice ;-). man xinit doesn't
mention xserverrc, maybe this is a debian thing. But it does mention
$HOME/.xserverrc; try to link or copy /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc to your
home dir as .xserverrc and start xinit again.

Regards, Olaf.