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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: "roland@webde" <devzero@web.de>
Cc: "Keith Whitwell" <keith@tungstengraphics.com>,
	"Keith Packard" <keithp@keithp.com>,
	cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, xserver@pdx.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AMOk5-0001z9-00@evo.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:25:34 +0100." <054901c3ae7f$16b6bc60$2000000a@schlepptopp>


Around 10 o'clock on Nov 19, "roland@webde" wrote:

> the only chance to get rid of it, is to use unix domain socket (via
> -nolisten tcp)

That option should be the default; ssh refuses to listen on a unix 
domain socket, but appears quite happy to connect to a unix domain 
socket.

I don't know of any compelling reason to run X raw over TCP/IP these days; 
it's insecure, and a bandwidth pig.

-keith



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-19  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <038f01c3ae12$35ca4a80$2000000a@schlepptopp>
     [not found] ` <3FBA82CC.6050500@msu.edu>
2003-11-19  1:53   ` roland@webde
2003-11-19  4:13     ` Keith Packard
2003-11-19  8:15       ` security, cvs, was " Keith Whitwell
2003-11-19  8:35         ` [Dri-devel] " Mike Mestnik
2003-11-19  8:49         ` Keith Packard
2003-11-19  9:22         ` roland@webde
2003-11-19  9:35           ` Keith Packard [this message]
2003-11-19  9:52             ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-11-19 19:34           ` Alan Coopersmith
2003-11-19 21:12             ` roland@webde
2003-11-19 23:49             ` Dave Dodge
2003-11-20  0:13               ` Alan Coopersmith
2003-11-20  0:13               ` Keith Packard
2003-11-20  0:32                 ` Dave Dodge
2003-11-19 14:01 devzero

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