Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:01:23PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> 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.
Only thing is, the X ports are 6000-7, according to /etc/services.
Sure the 1030 port is not for some local use only? Is it always the
same port? The ports doesn't appear to match any "reserved" ones in
/etc/services... Don't use wdm myself, so...
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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