What closed port 6000?

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 14:45:47 UTC 2003


On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Satish Balay wrote:

>> Port 6000 used to be open in it's place are ports 6001 and 6002.
>> I can't find anything in xinetd.conf that would indicate a change.
>
>Perhaps you are looking for the following option in /etc/X11/gdm.conf
>
>DisallowTCP=false

I very highly extremely, super-duper suggest not enabling X11 
communication over TCP unless you are restricting access to a 
trusted network which is not Internet accessible.

Just trust me on this one.

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat





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