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Subject: Re: [suse-security] Invisible X?
From: Roman Drahtmueller (drahtuni-freiburg.de)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 12:56:49 CDT

> > Howdy! I like to have as many as possible ports closed. Is it
> > possible to configure X in a way that it's only "visible" for
> > localhost/127.0.0.1 ?
> >
> Run your Xserver or Xwrapper with the "-nolisten tcp" option, or
> firewall deny port 6000.
>
> dan

Negative... If you happen to run display no :1 you'd listen on port
6001. "-nolisten tcp" is perfect, though.

Roman. 

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