On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:10:19PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > The fix that I've found so far is either to start X with xdm (which > > doesn't have that default off), to start startx with the -listen_tcp > > option, or to edit the startx script to remove the -nolisten_tcp arg to > > the Xserver invocation. > > Another option is for FreeBSD to commit a patch to the XFree86 port > which restores POLA to startx. In the meantime instead of editing the > script in your local install you might want to consider adding a shell > alias which aliases startx to "/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -listen_tcp".
--nolisten-tcp was added deliberately for security reasons: see the commit logs (it's also documented clearly at the top of the startx manpage). It sounds like an oversight that xdm doesn't do this; I've asked the XFree86 maintainer to investigate and make the corresponding change if necessary. Kris
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