On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:39:37AM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's > > a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart > > X. > > > > I had the same problem. > > > Yeah, me too, but why do you think that's a *nice* line? I don't get it > why that "-nolisten tcp" is there, or why you couldn't choose the > setting during installation. > Does anybody know?
X isn't very secure. Turning off tcp listening by default adds greatly to your X security. Many people never use a networked X... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
