Yes. Port 6000 allows anyone to attach to your X-server. xdmcp also allows people to get a login screen to your box. Anybody could dump stuff to your printer, too.
I do not know what is listening to 32768. I do not know what wdm is. If you want, I could run nmap against your server for your. This stuff is all easy to hide from the world, BTW. Joel Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:45:09PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > Simple security question. I don't do anything special for security, but I got > curious enough to issue `lsof -i` just for grins. > > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > lpd 997 lp 6u IPv4 2805 TCP *:printer (LISTEN) > wdm 1146 root 4u IPv4 3243 UDP *:xdmcp > wdm 1146 root 5u IPv4 3244 TCP *:32768 (LISTEN) > X 1149 root 1u IPv4 3249 TCP *:6000 (LISTEN) > wdm 1150 root 5u IPv4 3244 TCP *:32768 (LISTEN) > > Given the few ports that are actually listening, do I have much to worry about? > > -- > Collins > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
