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Re: [Dri-devel] security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server
- From: Mike Mestnik <cheako911 at yahoo dot com>
- To: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp dot com>
- Cc: "roland at webde" <devzero at web dot de>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, xserver at pdx dot freedesktop dot org, dri-devel <dri-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:34:39 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
ssh uses IP4:127.0.0.1, and as many times as ppl have asked for unix socket support it has allways
been denied. -nolisten tcp is something for the distros to set up, it should be *usable by
default.
* Meaning all non-devel features on and nothing extra for the user to do.
--- Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> Keith Packard wrote:
> > Around 2 o'clock on Nov 19, "roland@webde" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Keith, could you put this (being able to specify the interface bindings of
> >>the xserver on the commandline) as a feature request on http://
> >>www.freedesktop.org/Software/XserverWishlist if you find this feature
> >>request useful ? i registerd a wiki account, but logging in doesn`t seem to
> >>work for me.
> >
> >
> > I'd like to switch the server so that -nolisten tcp is the default; I
> > don't see much sense in having it listen to even 127.0.0.1. But, if you
> > wanted to make the list of IP addresses that the server bound to
> > configurable, that seems like a good idea.
>
> Yep - network transparency is all well & good, but do you really want
> something as complex as the X server sitting there with an open port to the world?
>
> Keith
>
>
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