Re: Tightening security

1999-08-28 Thread meridian
The best solution would be using ip filters such as ipchains to block the port from outside users, so no conections at all can be made to the xserver port. You might also check Xaccess and ensure only ip addresses that need access to port 6000 have it, which is often only the local machine merid

Tightening security

1999-08-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I got a question about security. I'm currently running libc2.0.7u, with 2.2.11 kernel, and apache. To protect from possible attacks I minimized the number of ports open and put up a portsentry. However, when I nmap myself, I see a port 6000 listening for connections. I believe that is X. I