On 7/16/05, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
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> Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:
> > I wasn't aware about explicitly setting it up for lisetning on TCP.
> > How do I go about doing that ?
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> Look at the script that starts up your X server. By default, it runs
> with flags to stop X from listening on TCP.
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> I suggest you NOT remove these flags. Instead, use X11 forwarding over
> ssh to your solaris box. The nolisten tcp stuff was done because the X
> server is a large piece of poorly code that often runs as root. You
> minimize your risk if you do X11 forwarding over ssh instead of
> opening up the X server directly.
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> .pm
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Perry,

   Thanks for the information on this.  As this is an internal lab
machine, I'm not worried
about the security on it, but I'll keep in it mind if I ever am on a
NBSD box where I need to
worry about such things.


cheers,

       mehul

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Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com