[ale] Closing ports 111 & 6000

[mhirsch at nubridges.com (Michael D. Hirsch)]

On Saturday 05 October 2002 08:50 pm, Dana Powers wrote:
>
> X is a little harder - if you are running xdm or kdm or gdm as a
> login manager, you'll need to stop that ( replace kdm with yours -
> find it using 'ps aux'):
> bash# /etc/rc.d/init.d/kdm stop

One problem with this is that then you can't run X on your system any 
more.  If you want to run X, but still close port 6000, there are two 
options, both of which work:

The wrong way: Use IP-Tables to turn off port 6000

The right way: Start X with the "-nolisten tcp" option.  

In either case, you will still be able to use X on the box, but outside 
systems will not be able to contact the X server.

--Michael

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