Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Sunday 10 October 2004 14:19, you wrote: >> best firewall: openbsd without a gui >> >> second best firewall: openbsd with a gui > > Would it help to firewall out connections from the world interface on > the standard X Window System ports (6000-6009 or so)? I would think > that would satisfy any security issues that would be caused by running > X on the firewall.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't change the fact that many /applications/ that people might wish to use the GUI for are not well written. *cough*Mozilla*cough* (dang alergies). IF you are running X on a firewall for multiple xterms, it really isn't a big problem. But that's not normally the reason people want to run X. Nick. -- http://www.holland-consulting.net
