On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:34:32AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Does anybody know how to configure wdm so that it doesn't open > TCP port 1030 when started? I guess this is not a big security > threat, but I've tried to keep open ports in minimum, and I > can't see why this one would be necessary either. I have to > admit that I don't know the purpose of this open port, but for > example gdm, which I've used in some other boxes, doesn't, at > least by default, open any ports. Edit /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers and add '-nolisten tcp' to the line that looks like :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X See if that fixes things. If not, then it's a bug and I must fix it since I am the wdm maintainer. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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