On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:33:08 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes. > > Port 6000 allows anyone to attach to your X-server. And the effect of this would be? I'm not trying to be a wise ass, I just don't understand all of this. > 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. wdm is the login manager (an extended xdm) > > If you want, I could run nmap against your server for your. This stuff cool. > 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
