Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

[Frank Zimmermann <F.Zimmermann@bham.ac.uk>]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Nikki Locke <nikki@trumphurst.com> writes:
>
>   nl> Good. Is it worth me "upgrading" to another version? The machine
>   nl> is there mostly to run samba, apache, apache-ssl and php4. I need
>   nl> a solid, stable ftp client which will work through a gateway, and
>   nl> the ability to ssh in from other machines on the network.
>
> If that's all you need, why install X at all?
>
> I don't have it on my firewall system, which does basically just exactly
> what yours is doing.
>
> Of course, this doesn't address your question directly.

Bu ta very important issue, since running X (or anything you don't need) on a server i sa potential security risc.



Frank