Hello, I was reading an article on rootprompt (http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=903) about security. Among other things, the author mentions: T"he magic words are to add -nolisten tcp to the incantation that actually starts the xserver (you can add gamma correction here too, btw.). This will close port 6000. The xdm port is closed by adding -udpPort 0 to it's startup command. Now you only have to find those commands. You'll get an interesting tour of the file system while doing so, since X is a collection of aliases that call scripts that call managers that call other scripts that activate daemons that start servers, all under the control of various configuration files. In my case I found the command to start the X server in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and xdm/kdm/gdm in is actually in /etc/inittab. " I tried adding the '-nolisten tcp' line where he mentioned and restart X, but nmap from another machine and netstat both tell me it's open. Any suggestions> Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] free cds - http://linux.fotter.com up 22 hours 42 minutes
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